Read this as the spider weaves its web, make a character map as you go! Set in present-day Oakland, each chapter told from a different character's perspective with a central (apocryphal?) chapter unattributed to any voice. Not exactly the caliber of a Wm. Faulkner, Leslie Marmon Silko or Ana Castillo but comparable, Orange has some lurches but his wordcraft is very fine, it's story compelling and authentic. There some implausible marksmanship but thankfully no magic realism, readers are expected to keep up, for plot coherenece best to knock it out in one or two reading sessions.
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Chaucer, Melville, Nathanael West, Wiliam Vollmann
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resipiscent rated Three lives: 4 stars
Three lives by Gertrude Stein (Dover thrift editions)
Gertrude Stein, as a college student at Radcliffe and a medical student at Johns Hopkins Medical School, was a privileged …
resipiscent reviewed There There by Tommy Orange
Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's …
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resipiscent rated Agonie des Eros: 4 stars
Byung-Chul Han: Agonie des Eros (Paperback, Matthes & Seitz Verlag)
Agonie des Eros by Byung-Chul Han
Dans ce livre, dont le titre original est "Agonie de l'Éros", le philosophe allemand d'origine coréenne Byung-chul Han nous fait …
resipiscent rated Duty free art: 4 stars
Duty free art by Hito Steyerl
"Where can contemporary art go under global war and fascism?"--
resipiscent rated Address Unknown: 3 stars
Kathrine Taylor: Address Unknown (Paperback, 2001, Washington Square Press)
Address Unknown by Kathrine Taylor
A rediscovered classic, originally published in 1938 and now an international bestseller.When it first appeared in Story magazine in 1938, …
resipiscent rated Gringos: 3 stars
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resipiscent rated Hate: a romance: 4 stars
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resipiscent rated The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics): 3 stars
The Confidence-Man (Oxford World's Classics) by Herman Melville, John Dugdale
Onboard the Fidele, a steamboat floating down the Mississippi to New Orleans, a confidence man sets out to defraud his …
resipiscent rated Molecular red: 4 stars
Molecular red by McKenzie Wark
"Of all the 'liberation movements' of the twentieth century, the one that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest dreams did not liberate …
