- Taschenbuch: 240 Seiten
- Verlag: Arcade Publishing; Auflage: Reprint (2. August 2004)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 1559707216
- ISBN-13: 978-1559707213
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: Ab 13 Jahren
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,3 x 14,5 x 1,8 cm
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Clever and exuberant, Griffith loves puns, malapropisms, and slang and is fascinated by life's endless capacity for absurdity. Praised for his witty first novel, Spikes (2001), he now presents a hilarious, bittersweet, and perceptive novella about a middle-aged librarian working at a New Orleans university library. Myrtle has cultivated dignity, but she was once very wild and is appalled to find herself assigned as the library sex cop. As she tries to accept the diminishments of age and her role as killjoy with grace, her boss' lubricious 18-year-old daughter, for whom the library is a place not for book learning but for erotic adventure, bedazzles Myrtle's favorite coworker, Seti, a sweet and proper Egyptian whose English is based on 1930s screwball comedies. As Myrtle valiantly prowls the stacks and smitten Seti struggles to remain faithful to his Muslim values, Griffith shrewdly considers our need for romance and our zest for rules and ardor for breaking them, themes further explored in the inventive short stories that orbit Bibliophilia like bright moons around a glowing planet. Donna Seaman
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Love Was Keeping His Foot Calluses Neatly Pumiced
1. August 2003
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Michael Griffith's Bibliophilia is the most masterly novella to come along since George Saunders' Pastoralia. Less surreal than Saunders, Griffith is funnier and, sentence for sentence, more muscular stylistically than Saunders. Reviewers compared Griffith's terrific debut novel, Spikes, to Nabokov and Saul Bellow, but Bibliophilia is unlike anything I've ever read. Its drop-dead smarts, super-duper vocabulary, and off-the-cuff scholarship would be over the top if not for his richly developed characters. Rather than giving us the stereotypical spinster librarian, Griffith presents us with Myrtle, an unhappily married laid-off legal aide who was once a raving sexpot and is now earning wages by prowling the stacks, looking to break up students boffing one another. Griffith's portrait of Myrtle's coworker, the Egyptian college student Seti, is the high point of the book. Nothing in Spikes prepared me for Griffith's rendition of Seti; he is one of the -- in Forster's sense -- "roundest," funniest, most ponderable, and memorable characters in recent American lit. I have no idea how Griffith, from Orangeburg, SC, got into Seti's consciousness so surreptitiously, making us laugh at his goofs, mispronunciations, misunderstandings, without reducing the guy to a laughing stock, a stock character. At the end of the novella when Seti and Myrtle come together it is like a confluence of the Nile and the Mississippi; it is a profound mud fest guaranteed to keep you laughing, even crying, out loud. Several short stories follow Griffith's novella as encores, and each, especially "Zugzwang," is a gem. I was delighted with Spikes; now Bibliophilia confirms my suspicions: Michael Griffith is a major American writer you absolutely must read.
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love this.
20. Mai 2006
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this is a book that i give to people and don't get back. it's just so brilliantly written -- i can't blame folks, really. the title novella "bibliophilia" is stunning, and has become one of my undying all-time favorites.
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Fine Writing, but Thin Plot
8. Mai 2007
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Griffith relies alomost entirely on the absurdity of his premises and his adept wordplays to drive his narration, but there is very little plot. You'll enjoy it if you're someone who loves playing with the English language and finding new meaning in the words, but this will still be a read-a-chapter-before-bed book.
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