MADRID - 02-06-2013 - FOTOS: JAVIER PARRA
BY THE SHORES OF GITCHEE GUMEE - TAMA JANOWITZ
RESEÑA DE LIBROS POR: JAVIER PARRA BY THE SHORES OF GITCHEE GUMEE TAMA JANOWITZ PICADOR - 1998 - GREAT BRITAIN AN EPIC TALE OF HUMAN BEINGS AND INVERTEBRATES - AND THEIR SEX LIVES - AT THE END OF AMERICA'S TWENTIETH CENTURY. IN A POLLUTED SWAMP (IN BETTER TIMES THE FOREST INMORTALIZED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW) LIVE THE HAPPY, SINGING, ALL-AMERICANS SLIVENOWICZ FAMILIY. EVANGELINE SLIVENOWICZ AND HER FIVE CHILDREN -FROM FIVE DIFFERENT FHATERS- LIVE IN BLISSFUL DISHARMONY IN A TRAILERR BY THE IMPURE WATERS OF LAKE GITCHEE GUMEE. AT NINETEEN, MAUD, THE NOVEL'S HEROINE, IS QUITE NATURALLY OBSESSD WITH SEX, POWER, MONEY AND HOW TO GET EVERY SINGLE THING SHE WANTS. aND SHE DOES IT IN A WAY THAT NEVER INVOLVES TOO MUCH VIOLENCE OR TOO MANY FOUR-LETTER WORDS. ON AN ENCYCLOPEDIC DIET OF ONE READER'S DIGEST ARTICLE A DAY, THE SLIVENOWICZ CLAN ABANDON THEIR MOSQUITO-INFESTED PASTORAL IDYLL FOR LOS ANGELES, SEDUCING A GLITTERING CAST OF DENTISTS, EN...
