En general las cartas, fotos y originales descripciones de la experiencia Mexicana le agregan los necesarios elementos para...
El debut como biógrafa de Violeta Barrett narra a través de cartas y fotos la verdadera historia de una excitante aventura de amor entre una turista estadounidense y un guía local, situada en el país de México en la época de 1950.
Barrett, una trabajadora en Wall Street, con un matrimonio frustrado y cansada de su trabajo decide viajar a México. Su introducción inicial a la cultura mexicana llega a través de un guía mexicano llamado Jorge. Al principio Barrett quedo enamorada con la música, los escenarios y la gente de México, pero el paisaje y la belleza de la misma hacen la escena perfecta para que Barrett comience un romance desenfrenado con Jorge. Esta aventura comienza de una manera típica con miradas y jugueteos, pero sin darse cuenta esto se convierte en más que un simple juego de miradas. Barrett decide pasar sus últimos días en México con su nuevo amor Jorge, los dos tratan de aprovechar el poco tiempo que les queda en la ciudad bailando y platicando, teniendo como único testigo los hermosos paisajes de la ciudad de México. Pero su realidad la llama de regreso a su país, y pasa cuatro años recordando a Jorge. Los lectores experimentaran el romance a larga distancia a través de cartas y letras, al igual que esta pareja lo hizo. Barrett tiene que decidir si Jorge es su destino o si solo fue una pequeña aventura. Barrett evita la extremadamente dulce y tradicional novela de amor concentrándose en los paisajes, la gente y las tradiciones de México, detalles que le dan fuerza e interés a la historia. Su descripción de los pueblos nativos como Pátzcuaro y centros urbanos como la ciudad de México son a la vez realistas y románticos, un equilibrio difícil de lograr. Las letras y las fotos que siguen su romance le dan un gran realismo y refuerzan la autenticidad de las memorias, haciéndola más que solo una historia de amor.
En general las cartas, fotos y originales descripciones de la experiencia Mexicana le agregan los necesarios elementos para hacer de esta una memorable historia.Pub Date: Aug. 16, 2011
ISBN: 978-1463301811
Page Count: 198
Publisher: Palibrio
Review Posted Online: Nov. 28, 2011
Review Program: Kirkus Indie
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Well-told and admonitory.
Young-rags-to-mature-riches memoir by broker and motivational speaker Gardner.
Born and raised in the Milwaukee ghetto, the author pulled himself up from considerable disadvantage. He was fatherless, and his adored mother wasn’t always around; once, as a child, he spied her at a family funeral accompanied by a prison guard. When beautiful, evanescent Moms was there, Chris also had to deal with Freddie “I ain’t your goddamn daddy!” Triplett, one of the meanest stepfathers in recent literature. Chris did “the dozens” with the homies, boosted a bit and in the course of youthful adventure was raped. His heroes were Miles Davis, James Brown and Muhammad Ali. Meanwhile, at the behest of Moms, he developed a fondness for reading. He joined the Navy and became a medic (preparing badass Marines for proctology), and a proficient lab technician. Moving up in San Francisco, married and then divorced, he sold medical supplies. He was recruited as a trainee at Dean Witter just around the time he became a homeless single father. All his belongings in a shopping cart, Gardner sometimes slept with his young son at the office (apparently undiscovered by the night cleaning crew). The two also frequently bedded down in a public restroom. After Gardner’s talents were finally appreciated by the firm of Bear Stearns, his American Dream became real. He got the cool duds, hot car and fine ladies so coveted from afar back in the day. He even had a meeting with Nelson Mandela. Through it all, he remained a prideful parent. His own no-daddy blues are gone now.
Well-told and admonitory.Pub Date: June 1, 2006
ISBN: 0-06-074486-3
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Amistad/HarperCollins
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 15, 2006
A wonderful page-turner written with humility, immediacy, and great style. Nothing came cheap and easy to McCandless, nor...
The excruciating story of a young man on a quest for knowledge and experience, a search that eventually cooked his goose, told with the flair of a seasoned investigative reporter by Outside magazine contributing editor Krakauer (Eiger Dreams, 1990).
Chris McCandless loved the road, the unadorned life, the Tolstoyan call to asceticism. After graduating college, he took off on another of his long destinationless journeys, this time cutting all contact with his family and changing his name to Alex Supertramp. He was a gent of strong opinions, and he shared them with those he met: "You must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life''; "be nomadic.'' Ultimately, in 1992, his terms got him into mortal trouble when he ran up against something—the Alaskan wild—that didn't give a hoot about Supertramp's worldview; his decomposed corpse was found 16 weeks after he entered the bush. Many people felt McCandless was just a hubris-laden jerk with a death wish (he had discarded his map before going into the wild and brought no food but a bag of rice). Krakauer thought not. Admitting an interest that bordered on obsession, he dug deep into McCandless's life. He found a willful, reckless, moody boyhood; an ugly little secret that sundered the relationship between father and son; a moral absolutism that agitated the young man's soul and drove him to extremes; but he was no more a nutcase than other pilgrims. Writing in supple, electric prose, Krakauer tries to make sense of McCandless (while scrupulously avoiding off-the-rack psychoanalysis): his risky behavior and the rites associated with it, his asceticism, his love of wide open spaces, the flights of his soul.
Pub Date: Jan. 1, 1996
ISBN: 0-679-42850-X
Page Count: 320
Publisher: Villard
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Oct. 15, 1995
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