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Mostrando postagens com marcador Vintage Books. Mostrar todas as postagens
Mostrando postagens com marcador Vintage Books. Mostrar todas as postagens

sexta-feira, 20 de dezembro de 2013

Revolutionary Road (Richard Yates)






Sinopse da 
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Frank e April Wheeler são jovens que, ao se mudarem para uma casa confortável nos arredores de Nova York, acreditando ter uma vida cheia de oportunidades pela frente. Apesar de terem de conviver com vizinhos mesquinhos e desinteressantes, consideram-se acima de tudo isso. Mas, conforme os anos passam, seus desejos parecem cada dia mais distantes. Ele detesta o trabalho burocrático, mas não sabe o que fazer para escapar da rotina. Ela, que se tornou mãe de dois filhos antes do planejado, gasta os dias em pequenos afazeres domésticos. Agora, uma nova chance de mudar suas vidas os fará tomar um rumo inesperado. Com profunda empatia e clareza, Richard Yates nos mostra como Frank e April comprometem esperanças e ideais, traindo não apenas um ao outro, mas também a si mesmos. É um livro marcante, que agora ganha uma adaptação para o cinema pelo diretor, ganhador do Oscar, Sam Mendes, com Leonardo DiCaprio e Kate Winslet no papel de protagonistas 10 anos depois do sucesso em "Titanic". Lançado em 1961 com o título original Revolutionary Road, o livro de Richard Yates está na lista dos 100 maiores romances de todos os tempos da revista Time.










Publicado por: Vintage Books










Publicado em: 2007









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quarta-feira, 31 de julho de 2013

Girls in White Dresses (Jennifer Close)




Sinopse
Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower after bridal shower, they coo over toasters, collect ribbons and wrapping paper, eat minuscule sandwiches and cakes. They wear pastel dresses and drink champagne by the case, but amid the celebration these women have their own lives to contend with: Isabella is working a dead-end job, Mary is dating a nice guy with an awful mother, and Lauren is waitressing at a midtown bar and wondering why she's attracted to the sleazy bartender. With a wry sense of humor, Jennifer Close brings us through those thrilling, bewildering years of early adulthood as she pulls us inside the circle of these friends, perfectly capturing the wild frustrations and soaring joys of modern life. 






Publicado por: Vintage Books





Publicado em: 2012





quarta-feira, 3 de julho de 2013

Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth (Xiaolu Guo)






Sinopse
From the author of the 2007 Orange Prize finalist A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers comes a wholly original and thoroughly captivating coming-of-age story that follows a bright, impassioned young woman as she rushes headlong into the maelstrom of a rapidly changing Beijing to chase her dreams. Twenty-one year old Fenfang Wang has traveled one thousand eight hundred miles to seek her fortune in contemporary urban Beijing, and has no desire to return to the drudgery of the sweet potato fields back home. However, Fenfang is ill-prepared for what greets her: a Communist regime that has outworn its welcome, a city under rampant destruction and slap-dash development, and a sexist attitude seemingly more in keeping with her peasant upbringing than the country’s progressive capital. Yet Fenfang is determined to live a modern life. With courage and purpose, she forges ahead, and soon lands a job as a film extra. While playing roles like woman-walking-over-the bridge and waitress-wiping-a-table help her eke out a meager living, Fenfang comes under the spell of two unsuitable young men, keeps her cupboard stocked with UFO noodles, and after mastering the fever and tumult of the city, ultimately finds her true independence in the one place she never expected. At once wry and moving, Twenty Fragments of a Ravenous Youth gives us a clear-eyed glimpse into the precarious and fragile state of China’s new identity and asserts Xiaolu Guo as her generation’s voice of modern China.






Publicado por: Vintage






Publicado em: 2009






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