Half His Age A Novel
von Jennette McCurdy
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.
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Half His Age A Novel
von Jennette McCurdy
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.
Aktuelle Rezensionen(3)
Rezension von Spelly Bellasuch an important topic! I was always hoping the mom and the teacher would be bettter!! so I did like the ending! she broke off the relationship so happy for her! I mean I loved how he had to dump his wife also so he did not get to keep one of them! I had such high hopes about the mom getting better, being better, doing what she should have many maany years ago! Overall excluding my disgust to that nasty teacher
Rezension von Talia Steierich liebe die Ehrlichkeit in diesem Buch. einfach unzensiert ehrlich und wahr
Rezension von Lea-SophieDieses Buch zu bewerten, fällt mir irgendwie schwer.. aber starten wir erstmal mit dem Inhalt: Direkt zu Beginn des Buches verliebt sich die 17-Jährige Waldo in ihren Lehrer für kreatives Schreiben. Dieser ist doppelt so alt wie sie und hat Frau und Kind.. Waldo ist voll in der Pubertät, eine richtig wilde, junge Frau, die ihre Sexualleben gerade noch entdeckt und sich in ihr Interesse für diesen Mann reinsteigert, wie man das halt in dem Alter macht. Und dann fangen die wirklich was miteinander an… Dieses Buch hat mich so sauer gemacht. Es war einfach wie ein Unfall. Es ließ sich schnell lesen, weil die Kapitel kurz und die Schrift groß war. Die Sprache die hier verwendet wurde, war sehr umgangssprachlich und roh. Und im Grunde genommen, wäre es auch eine interessante Geschichte, wenn die richtige Message hier transportiert würde - nämlich, dass eine solche Beziehung mit einer Minderjährigen nicht in Ordnung ist. Ich will das Ende und den Verlauf der Geschichte jetzt nicht spoilern, aber irgendwie ist diese Beziehung leider verherrlicht worden, weshalb ich die Geschichte gerade für junge Leser:innen problematisch finde. Keine Empfehlung meinerseits