American Tango - Couverture souple

Vandever, Jennifer

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0996679529 ISBN 13 : 9780996679527

Editeur : Melograno Press, 2016

Synopsis

A novel about men and women, love and loss, regaining passion and, of course, the tango. Rosalind Plumley needs something. She's a thirtysomething aspiring artist in Portland, Oregon whose sole output has dwindled to decorative paintings of hummingbirds for the upscale children's boutique where she works. She’s coping with her marriage to a blocked, depressed writer while her eccentric family threatens to consume what little sanity she has left. When she hits on the romantic idea that moving to Buenos Aires will restore passion and purpose to her life she has little idea just what she's getting herself into. A tango class leads her on an unexpected journey as she discovers the surprising path of her own desires and a new understanding of her family’s complicated history.

A propos du livre

About the Author

Jennifer Vandever is a graduate of Columbia University's film program and the author of the novel The Brontë Project and cowriter of the independent film Just One Time. She teaches courses in Screenwriting, Screwball & Romantic Comedy, and Women In Film for the Los Angeles program of Emerson College. Originally from Portland, Oregon she currently divides her time between Portland and Los Angeles where she lives with her husband.

Review

How to keep moving forward when your life has stalled out -- that's part of the push and pull that writer Jennifer Vandever wrestles with in her taut and funny new novel, 'American Tango'  ....  swift and entertaining prose, and a plot that serves up more than a few surprises.  Portland Tribune

In her enjoyable second novel, Vandever cleverly meshes strikingly eccentric characters with everyday situations. Rosalind Plumley, a 37-year-old Oregonian, is an artist trapped in a retail job that caters to snobby hipsters. She's the middle child in a bohemian family and married to a sweet but sad man who has a budding marijuana addiction. Amid her failing marriage and struggles with her neurotic family, Rosalind fantasizes about escaping her life and moving to Buenos Aires. She signs up for a tango class in preparation for her imagined future, and what follows is a story about love and reevaluating your dreams when reality comes crashing down. Rosalind can be amusingly gloomy and the story is seasoned with salty wit--she describes a pair of shoes as appearing to have been "dipped in the shimmery gold powder used to kill off a Bond girl," and when her liberal mother considers a late-in-life romance, the greatest drawback is that the man voted for Romney. Vandever (The Brontë Project) writes smart, interesting characters who gradually mature in believable ways. Perceptive, bittersweet, and sometimes darkly funny, this is light enough for a quick read, yet it has enough depth to leave a satisfying impression. BookLife, Publishers Weekly

Praise for The Bronte ProjectClever .... A zippy romp in which Vandever skillfully parodies academia and Hollywood .... Witty and artful.  
-- New York Times Book Review
 
Wickedly funny.  -- Christian Science Monitor
 
A brilliant first novel of love: so original, so enchanting, so poignantly true that it defies you to put it down.
-- Karen Quinn (author of THE IVY CHRONICLES)
 
A first novel that is fresh, playful, intelligent, and consistently entertaining. 
-- The Boston Globe
 
A sweet read even a WutheringHeights fan can love.  -- Entertainment Weekly
 
A rollicking romp through the fun-house hallways of academe and the narcissism of celebrity. -- KirkusReviews
 
Wickedly clever . . . Vandever's irreverent debut novel dips intoVictorian letters for inspiration, dredging up romantic angst to frame and foil a love story set in the age of new media.  -- Publishers Weekly
 
Sometimes it seems, you can have it all... The Brontë Project is a silver-screen ready romp . . . the novel's dissection of the gulf between themyth of romance and the reality of love (using heroines as disparate as Princess Diana and Bronte herself as case studies) is the real -- and really affecting -- deal. -- Elle

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Melograno Press
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0996679529
• ISBN 13: 9780996679527
• Reliure: Paperback
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible