N.º 54 en Novela contemporánea
Half His Age
- 262
- Páginas
- unas 5 h
- Tiempo de lectura
- Bestseller del NYT · 2 semanas en la lista, puesto máximo n.º 5
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Sobre el libro
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of I’m Glad My Mom Died comes a sad, funny, thrilling novel about sex, consumerism, class, desire, loneliness, the internet, rage, intimacy, power, and the (oftentimes misguided) lengths we’ll go to in order to get what we want. Waldo is ravenous. Horny. Blunt. Naive. Wise. Impulsive. Lonely. Angry. Forceful. Hurting. Perceptive. Endlessly wanting. And the thing she wants most of all: Mr. Korgy, her creative writing teacher with the wife and the kid and the mortgage and the bills, with the dead dreams and the atrophied looks and the growing paunch. She doesn’t know why she wants him. Is it his passion? His life experience? The fact that he knows books and films and things that she doesn’t? Or is it purer than that, rooted in their unlikely connection, their kindred spirits, the similar filter with which they each take in the world around them? Or, perhaps, it’s just enough that he sees her when no one else does. Startlingly perceptive, mordantly funny, and keenly poignant, Half His Age is a rich character study of a yearning seventeen-year-old who disregards all obstacles—or attempts to overcome them—in her effort to be seen, to be desired, to be loved.
De dónde sale la puntuación
Las fuentes promedian 6,4 sobre 169 valoraciones, aún pocas, así que el voto lector pesa un 48% y el resto tira hacia la media de Novela contemporánea (7,9). De ahí sale 7,2.
| Fuente | Media | Valoraciones | Peso |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6,4 | 169 | 100% |
Voces de lectores
Las reseñas más valoradas en Hardcover (con autoría).
“This honestly disappointed me. It wanted to be like My Dark Vanessa, and touched on some of the same topics as Lolita, however I feel those 2 titles handled the material far better. Although I really liked McCurdy's prose in her autobiography, I didn't enjoy it nearly as much here. The constant tangential observations often felt like filler. Many of the explicit scenes were pure shock content rather than progressing story or character. Themes such as self-image, toxic relationships, and shopping addiction were dealt with in a heavy-handed way - it was a repetitive cycle, all done very litera…”
“perplexed a bit. i love jennette mccurdy’s voice in her writing and i really liked a lot of things about this book, but something’s stopping me from saying i liked the book as a whole. it’s super graphic and i think maybe i found it to end up being a bit repetitive and a bit too long? i do really like what the book had to say as a whole though, and the short chapters were really great. just don’t know exactly how i feel about the execution of it between a 2.75 and a 3 star. can’t decide”
Preguntas frecuentes
¿Qué nota tiene el libro Half His Age?
7,2 sobre 10, a partir de 169 valoraciones de lectores en 1 fuentes independientes.
¿Merece la pena leer Half His Age?
Los lectores le dan 7,2/10 con 169 valoraciones, por delante del 2 % de la estantería Novela contemporánea.
¿Cuánto se tarda en leer «Half His Age»?
Unas 5 horas a ritmo medio: 262 páginas.
¿En qué puesto está el libro Half His Age?
N.º 54 en Novela contemporánea en la instantánea actual.
¿Fue el libro Half His Age un bestseller?
Sí: 2 semanas en la lista del New York Times, con un máximo en el n.º 5. Las ventas se muestran pero nunca puntúan.
¿Cuánto ocupa Half His Age?
Tiene 262 páginas: menos que el 80 % de los libros clasificados en Novela contemporánea.
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