I misteri di Pittsburgh

Gangsters and Pranksters

Here is a first novel by a talented young writer that is full of all the delights, and not a few of the disappointments, inherent in any early work of serious fiction. There is the pleasure of a fresh voice and a keen eye, of watching a writer clearly in love with language and literature, youth and wit, expound and embellish upon the world as he sees it, balanced by a scarcity of well-developed characters and a voice so willing to please that it seldom goes beyond the story's surface.
As is the case in so many first novels, ''The Mysteries of Pittsburgh'' is a coming-of-age story, the chronicle of a single summer in which a young man confronts both his family and his sexuality and thus finds them forever changed. [...]

di Alice McDermott, articolo completo (6932 caratteri spazi inclusi) su 3 Aprile 2009