Only Mostly Devastated
Autor Sophie Gonzalesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mar 2021 – vârsta până la 18 ani
Prezentat într-un format Paperback accesibil și prietenos, acest roman se adresează adolescenților și tinerilor adulți, oferind o perspectivă modernă asupra complexității primei iubiri. Remarcăm cum Only Mostly Devastated reușește să captureze acea efervescență a vârstei de 16-18 ani, fiind o lectură care îmbină umorul cu momente de o vulnerabilitate emoțională profundă. Premisa ne poartă în viața lui Ollie, care, după o vară idilică alături de Will, descoperă că realitatea de la liceu este mult mai complicată: băiatul sensibil de pe plajă a devenit acum un sportiv popular și distant, care își ascunde adevărata identitate.
Stilul narativ este alert și plin de spirit, amintind de dinamismul din This Is Kind of an Epic Love Story de Kacen Callender, dar cu o temă actuală: navigarea identității queer într-un mediu școlar conservator și gestionarea responsabilităților față de familie în perioade de criză. Credem că experiența autoarei ca psiholog transpare în modul în care sunt construite personajele; ele nu sunt doar arhetipuri, ci tineri care fac greșeli, suferă și învață să-și seteze limite sănătoase.
În contextul operei sale, Sophie Gonzales continuă să exploreze dinamica „enemies-to-lovers” și complexitatea relațiilor sub lupa publicului sau a colegilor, teme prezente și în Perfect On Paper sau If This Gets Out. Totuși, aici, accentul cade mai mult pe onestitatea față de sine. Tonul este cald și încurajator, făcând din această poveste o alegere excelentă pentru părinții care doresc să le ofere adolescenților o literatură care validează diversitatea experiențelor umane fără a sacrifica farmecul unei comedii romantice clasice.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1250787432
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 135 x 207 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: St. Martin's Publishing Group
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De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte adolescenților care caută o poveste despre curajul de a fi tu însuți. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă empatică asupra provocărilor legate de identitate și acceptare socială. Este o lectură ideală pentru vacanță, oferind un echilibru perfect între momentele amuzante, inspirate de clasicul „Grease”, și lecții valoroase despre loialitate, prietenie și importanța comunicării în orice relație, totul sub semnătura unei autoare care înțelege psihologia tânărului adult.
Despre autor
Sophie Gonzales este o autoare australiană de succes, stabilită în Adelaide, care și-a dedicat cariera scrierii de comedii romantice queer pentru tineri. Având o formare solidă ca psiholog, după absolvirea Universității din Adelaide, Gonzales aduce în literatura pentru adolescenți o profunzime emoțională aparte și o înțelegere fină a mecanismelor de coping și a dinamicii sociale. Lucrările sale, printre care se numără și Never Ever Getting Back Together, sunt apreciate la nivel internațional pentru umorul lor acid și pentru modul autentic în care reprezintă comunitatea LGBTQ+, devenind o voce esențială în literatura contemporană de tip „Young Adult”.
Descriere scurtă
A 2021 Southern Book Prize finalist
A Goodreads Choice Awards 2020 finalist
A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection
An Indie Next Pick
"Only Mostly Devastated is the kind of book I wish existed when my kids were younger--a charming, funny, laugh-out-loud teen romance that reminds all readers love comes in a multitude of flavors, and they are ALL sweet." --Jodi Picoult, New York Times-bestselling author of Small Great Things and A Spark of Light
"A delightful, heartwarming, heartrending story about family, love, friendship, and living your most authentic life. I couldn't put it down." --New York Times-bestselling author Sandhya Menon Will Tavares is the dream summer fling--he's fun, affectionate, kind--but just when Ollie thinks he's found his Happily Ever After, summer vacation ends and Will stops texting Ollie back. Now Ollie is one prince short of his fairytale ending, and to complicate the fairytale further, a family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country. Which he minds a little less when he realizes it's the same school Will goes to...except Ollie finds that the sweet, comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn't the same one attending Collinswood High. This Will is a class clown, closeted--and, to be honest, a bit of a jerk. Ollie has no intention of pining after a guy who clearly isn't ready for a relationship, especially since this new, bro-y jock version of Will seems to go from hot to cold every other week. But then Will starts "coincidentally" popping up in every area of Ollie's life, from music class to the lunch table, and Ollie finds his resolve weakening. The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered. Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again. Right? Right.
Only Mostly Devastated is] an instant hit and Sophie Gonzales one YA author to watch." --Julia Lynn Rubin, author of Burro Hills
Descriere
Ollie and Will were a summer fling; now they're classmates. But only one of them is out...SIMON VS THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA meets a modern-day, queer re-imagining of GREASE. It was the very last Wednesday of August when I realized Disney had been lying to me about Happily Ever Afters.
Because, you see, I was four days into mine, and my prince was nowhere to be found. "Please don't lose contact. I need to see you again," he'd said.
So why was I here, banging my head against a metaphorical wall, weighing up the pros and cons of sending another message? This wasn't a big deal. It was just a guy texting another guy. A guy who knew all my biggest secrets, and had Seen.
Me. Naked (TM). A guy who'd convinced me he really, really liked me.
A guy who'd better have been abducted by goddamn aliens... When Ollie meets Will over the summer break, he thinks he's found his Happily Ever After. But once summer's ended, Will stops texting him back, and Ollie finds himself short of his fairy-tale ending.
A family emergency sees Ollie uprooted and enrolled at a new school across the country - Will's school - and Ollie finds that the sweet, affectionate and comfortably queer guy he knew from summer isn't the same one attending Collinswood High. This Will is a class clown, a basketball jock and, well, a bit of a jerk. Ollie isn't going to pine after a guy who isn't ready for a relationship.
But as school life repeatedly throws them together, from music class to the lunch table, Ollie finds his resolve weakening. With the noisy drama of their friends as the backdrop - from ambitious Juliette and frosty Lara, to big-hearted Darnell and king-jock Matt - Ollie has a decision to make. The last time he gave Will his heart, Will handed it back to him trampled and battered.
Ollie would have to be an idiot to trust him with it again. Right?
Recenzii
Irresistibly cute and hilariously sweet, this book warmed my heart with its characters and love story
There can never be enough queer stories about romance - and when they are told with this much heart, humor and a swoon-worthy story line, you never want them to end
Funny and sweet and super gay, fans of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda are going to be all over Only Mostly Devastated!
Only Mostly Devastated is the kind of book I wish existed when my kids were younger - a charming, funny, laugh-out-loud teen romance that reminds all readers love comes in a multitude of flavors, and they are ALL sweet
A delightful, heartwarming, heartrending story about family, love, friendship, and living your most authentic life. I couldn't put it down
Wry but earnest, sweet but irreverent, heartbreaking but hopeful. You'll be rooting for Ollie and his messy, wonderful friends from the first page to the last
With razor-sharp wit, masterful comedic timing, and heaps of heart, these hilarious, lovable, heartbreakingly real characters make Only Mostly Devastated an instant hit and Sophie Gonzales one YA author to watch