Nº 54 em Ficção contemporânea
Half His Age
- 262
- Páginas
- cerca de 5 h
- Tempo de leitura
- Best-seller do NYT · 2 semanas na lista, chegou ao nº 5
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Sobre o livro
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 onde vem a nota
As fontes têm média 6,4 em 169 avaliações — ainda poucas, então o voto dos leitores carrega 48% do peso e o restante puxa para a média de Ficção contemporânea, 7,9. É assim que sai 7,2.
| Fonte | Média | Avaliações | Peso |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hardcover | 6,4 | 169 | 100% |
Vozes dos leitores
As resenhas mais curtidas no Hardcover (com crédito aos autores).
“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”
Perguntas frequentes
Qual é a nota de Half His Age?
7,2 de 10, a partir de 169 avaliações de leitores em 1 fontes independentes.
Vale a pena ler Half His Age?
Os leitores dão 7,2/10 em 169 avaliações, à frente de 2 % da estante Ficção contemporânea.
Quanto tempo demora a ler «Half His Age»?
Cerca de 5 horas a ritmo médio: 262 páginas.
Em que posição está Half His Age?
Nº 54 em Ficção contemporânea na captura atual.
Half His Age foi um best-seller?
Sim — 2 semanas na lista do New York Times, chegando ao nº 5. As vendas aparecem aqui, mas nunca entram na nota.
Quantas páginas tem Half His Age?
Tem 262 páginas — menos que 80% dos livros do ranking em Ficção contemporânea.
Se você gostou deste
A mesma estante — Ficção contemporânea — com notas entre 7,2 e 7,5, as mais próximas deste livro.
