n. 54 in Romanzo contemporaneo
Half His Age
- 262
- Pagine
- circa 5 h
- Tempo di lettura
- Bestseller del NYT · 2 settimane in classifica, posizione più alta n. 5
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Il 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.
Da dove viene il punteggio
Le fonti danno una media di 6,4 su 169 valutazioni, ancora poche: il voto dei lettori pesa il 48% e il resto tira verso la media di Romanzo contemporaneo (7,9). Da qui il 7,2.
| Fonte | Media | Valutazioni | Peso |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6,4 | 169 | 100% |
Voci dei lettori
Le recensioni più apprezzate su Hardcover (con attribuzione).
“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”
Domande frequenti
Che voto ha il libro Half His Age?
7,2 su 10, da 169 valutazioni di lettori in 1 fonti indipendenti.
Vale la pena leggere Half His Age?
I lettori gli danno 7,2/10 su 169 valutazioni, davanti al 2 % dello scaffale Romanzo contemporaneo.
Quanto tempo ci vuole per leggere «Half His Age»?
Circa 5 ore a ritmo medio: 262 pagine.
In che posizione si trova il libro Half His Age?
N. 54 in Romanzo contemporaneo nello snapshot attuale.
Il libro Half His Age è stato un bestseller?
Sì — 2 settimane nella classifica del New York Times, al massimo n. 5. Le vendite sono mostrate ma non entrano mai nel punteggio.
Quanto è lungo Half His Age?
Ha 262 pagine: più corto del 80% dei libri classificati in Romanzo contemporaneo.
Se ti è piaciuto
Lo stesso scaffale — Romanzo contemporaneo — con punteggi tra 7,2 e 7,5, i più vicini a questo libro.
