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| Original Title: | Emma Who Saved My Life |
| ISBN: | 0312191189 (ISBN13: 9780312191184) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Wilton Barnhardt
Paperback | Pages: 496 pages Rating: 3.72 | 488 Users | 54 Reviews
Particularize Of Books Emma Who Saved My Life
| Title | : | Emma Who Saved My Life |
| Author | : | Wilton Barnhardt |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 496 pages |
| Published | : | June 15th 1998 by Picador (first published 1989) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Literary Fiction. Novels. Contemporary. Historical. Historical Fiction. Humor. New York |
Representaion To Books Emma Who Saved My Life
A big, funny, engaging, unsentimental and sometimes even wise book...Delightful."—New York Post
Author of Lookaway, Lookaway
Wilton Barnhardt's novel of coming of age in New York City brims with energy, surprise, irresistible humor, and the heady rush of youth. Its hero, Gil Freeman, a midwestern aspiring actor, comes to the city in search of stardom—but instead encounters the perils of Alphabet City, the desperation of off-off-off-Broadway theater...and the exhilarating, exasperating, absolutely unique Emma, around whom his life comes to turn. Charming and engaging, quintessentially American, Emma Who Saved My Life is one of the extraordinary fiction debuts of our time.
Rating Of Books Emma Who Saved My Life
Ratings: 3.72 From 488 Users | 54 ReviewsEvaluation Of Books Emma Who Saved My Life
2.5 starsThe main storyline was kind of boring but I enjoyed the background of descriptions of the New York scene in the late 70s.Do not recommend.A book author Laura Lippman rereads every year. ...I think it just has one of the best last lines. Its very melancholy and its very wise, and I choke up a little bit every time. Im choking up now just thinking about it.
The concept is fairly run of the mill, almost boring in summary: naive young Midwestern kid moves to NYC in search of women and fame, etc. What stands out about this book is not the plot, but the execution. Very nice, smooth writing that works in lots of complex but believable emotion without being maudlin. I think my hope for a different ending was a personal bias. All in all, quite enjoyable and different from what I usually read. Thanks, Mat!
A dead-on, hugely funny novel about a young Midwestern man who comes to NY in the mid-70s to be an actor and the infuriating, entrancing young woman who takes him under her unreliable wing. I've rarely laughed out loud so often over a book. It has some echoes of BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S in its straight-arrow narrator and the enticing eccentric he adores, and also in its incisive skewering of the (in this case) theatrical subset of NY society. A must read for anyone who has been, is, or will be an
I loved this book, a coming-of-age story that ends not with triumph but with a reassessment of the initial dream when it's partially realized."Emma" is carefully written and deeply imagined. It reads, in fact, like the memoir of an aspiring actor's decade in New York City, where he encounters dirt-poor bohemians, street thugs, ethnic immigrants, and a crazy poet named Emma Gennaro, who bounces in and out of Bellevue. A few remarks : 1) I was sorry to see crazy Susan tossed aside, like trash into
Wilton Barnhardt has a genius for the comic novel. This was very funny and was really enjoyable, though not quite as much as Lookaway, Lookaway. Gil Freeman is an aspiring actor in New York who has two female roommates, Lisa and Emma. He falls for the beautiful, difficult Emma and carries the torch for her for many years. Their final breakup scene is just classic and laugh-out-loud funny.After ten years as a struggling actor, Gil finally packs it in after realizing that he is never going to be
New York. The 1970s. Theatre. Youth scene. It would be hard to come of up with a mix of themes better suited to not piquing my interest. So it's fortunate that this book fell into my hands entirely by accident, missing its dust cover. Despite the outrageous posing of certain characters, the narrator has a wonderfully authenticity that couldn't help but win me over. Top that with the odd scene that was laugh-out-loud funny, and I have no regrets, even if, like Gil Freeman, I think it's time to
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