A novel written in verse, set in the 1980s, in California's silicon valley. The work focuses on a group of twenty-somethings looking for love, pleasure and the meaning of life.
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Can 690 sonnets, rhyming a-b-a-b-c-c-d-d-e-f-f-e-g-g, be a novel? Definitely! First published in 1986 and still fresh (the sole sign of its publication date being the frequent use of the word yuppie), Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate will turn the verse-fearing into admiring acolytes. Janet Hayakawa, a yet-to-be-discovered sculptor and drummer in the Liquid Sheep, secretly places a personal ad for her friend John, even though she too is single. "Only her cats provide distraction,/Twin paradigms of lazy action." The seventh letter does the trick. Lawyer Liz Donati's submission is two sonnets in toto and disarms John into meeting her. Soon they fall into brief bliss, as do her brother, Ed, and John's old college roommate, Phil. Unfortunately, the first couple's love is too soon destroyed, partly by a pet, partly by politics; and the second is rent by religion. Ed pulls away thanks to the Bible: "I have to trust my faith's decisions, / Not batten on my own volitions."
The rest of the novel leads less to the traditional comic ending--rapprochement and marriage all around--than to surprising sadness. But in between there is wit, wordplay, abounding allusion, and some marvelous animals, among them the iguana Schwarzenegger. The author even steps onto the stage on occasion: at a frou-frou publishing party a powerful editor accosts him, curious to hear about his new novel. When Seth tells him it's in verse, the temperature plummets. "'How marvelously quaint,' he said, / And subsequently cut me dead." Luckily, Seth's real editor did anything but.
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"At once a bittersweet love story, a wickedly funny novel of manners and an unsentimental meditation on mortality and the nuclear abyss. Always witty--and still profound--the book paints a truthful picture of our dreadful, comic times."
--Vanity Fair
"A splendid achievement, equally convincing in its exhilaration and its sadness."
--The New York Times
"The great California novel has been written in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy."
--Gore Vidal
--Vanity Fair
"A splendid achievement, equally convincing in its exhilaration and its sadness."
--The New York Times
"The great California novel has been written in verse (and why not?): The Golden Gate gives great joy."
--Gore Vidal
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Picking up a book like "The Golden Gate" can be quite a turn off for the traditional novel reader. However, it came as a pleasant surprise when Seth's masterpiece surpassed all literature I had read in the near past. Sonnet after sonnet and one controlled emotion after another, Vikram Seth is more than a writer - he is an invisible omniscience throughout the reading. Although, much in the novel is left to personal opinion and speculation, the options before the reader are as many as two steps to the right or the left of the intended effect. Starting off with neutrality and working his way into the emotional touch that has often defined Indin writing, Vikram Seth gives no reason for the reader to believe that there is an Indian hand behind the book. While bringing in poetic structure common to the Romantics and to the likes of Shakespeare, the language is simple, often slang and in no sense phrased in the manner Keats or Wordsworth might have put it. There is hardly more to say than "the book is a success and has become as much a part of growing up as is Enid Blyton or Shakespeare"
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A novel in a succession of perfect sonnets? Contrary to all expectations, The Golden Gate is neither pedestrian nor esoteric. The characters are real, the story is current and the wit is astounding. This book, more than any other, will keep me company for a long time. I have given copies to some of my dearest friends, each of whom, without exception, have given copies to their friends. Read it. You'll laugh and cry and be amazed.
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I read this book in a single sitting. It was quite unbelievable how well Seth captured the ethos of the yuppiedom of San Francisco and environs. After a while, I actually forgot that it was written in sonnet form, I just got carried away!
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Da mir sämtliche andere Werke von Vikram Seth - und die Gedichte, die darin vorkamen - sehr gut gefielen, habe ich mir auch dieses Buch gekauft. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Juni 2003 von Holly Short
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don't be put off by the verse format
Although this book is written entirely in verse, don't shy away from it as an aberration. It is as engaging and full-bodied as most other novels. Though it doesn't compare to Mr. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juli 2000 von Bearette24
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Pure Poetic Pleasure!
The first time I picked up this book at a bookstore and started perusing the pages; it was love at first sight. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 25. Mai 2000 von "manojicus"
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From a RABID fan
Go buy this book and DEVOUR it. I have read it cover to cover several times, and loved every minute of it. Masterful in its technique and yet not at all stilted...a joy to read. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. März 2000 von Sorab Wadia
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Absolutely Genius!
Seth's creativity is amazing. The novel is touching as the web of the lives of the characters unfolds. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. März 2000 von Krystin Kim
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Charming, witty, hilarious, sad -- a sheer delight!
£7.99 for a book of poetry (and sonnets at that!)I thought I was mad but it's been worth every penny. This is a novel that I'll read again and again. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 27. August 1999 veröffentlicht
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A book of mixed merit
Technically, this book is excellent. The poetry is extremely well done, the characters are well-drawn, and the pacing is just right. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
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memorable, witty, funny and an enjoyable plot ;a great book.
Really very funny, worth any money. In double quick time will have you thinking in rhyme.
Am 7. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
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Wonderful, poetry and a lovely story.
This is a wonderful story, full of life and detail, it is many years since I have read it, but I remember how I wept at a certain point in the story. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juni 1999 von Nancy C. Gause
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A Masterpiece - a poem of life!
One of the most common factors that binds people is a common language. Mr.Seth's book is written in the universal language of human emotions, and that is what makes reading this... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Mai 1999 von indu001@yahoo.com
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