n° 54 en Roman contemporain
Half His Age
- 262
- Pages
- environ 5 h
- Temps de lecture
- Best-seller du NYT · 2 semaines dans la liste, meilleur classement n° 5
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À propos du livre
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.
D'où vient le score
Les sources donnent une moyenne de 6,4 sur 169 notes, encore peu nombreuses : le vote des lecteurs pèse 48% et le reste tire vers la moyenne de Roman contemporain (7,9). D'où 7,2.
| Source | Moyenne | Notes | Poids |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6,4 | 169 | 100% |
Avis de lecteurs
Les critiques les plus appréciées sur Hardcover (créditées).
“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”
Questions fréquentes
Quelle note a le livre Half His Age ?
7,2 sur 10, à partir de 169 notes de lecteurs issues de 1 sources indépendantes.
Half His Age vaut-il la lecture ?
Les lecteurs lui donnent 7,2/10 sur 169 notes, devant 2 % de l'étagère Roman contemporain.
Combien de temps faut-il pour lire « Half His Age » ?
Environ 5 heures à un rythme moyen : 262 pages.
À quelle place se classe le livre Half His Age ?
N° 54 en Roman contemporain dans l'instantané actuel.
Le livre Half His Age a-t-il été un best-seller ?
Oui — 2 semaines dans la liste du New York Times, au mieux n° 5. Les ventes sont affichées mais n'entrent jamais dans la note.
Combien de pages fait Half His Age ?
Il compte 262 pages — plus court que 80 % des livres classés en Roman contemporain.
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