The Story of My Baldness: A Novel
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The Story of My Baldness: A Novel
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The ingenious comic novel named one of the “best books of 2004” by The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Baltimore Sun.read full description

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Mar 29, 2010
Greg rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Blue Mondays and The Story of My Baldness are both winners of the same first novel award, and both written by Arnon Grunberg. Along with David's raving albeit depressing review for Blue Mondays it's this fact that made me want to read these two novels. I like the idea that someone was able to fool an award committee into giving him the same award twice, an award that by its nature can only be awarded once.

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Apr 18, 2011
Michael rated it: 5 of 5 stars
A masterpiece of contemporary Dutch literature. The author, Arnon Grunberg, won the Netherland's Anton Wachter Prize for a debut novel, "Blue Mondays" (1997), then came back to win the very same prize again for "Story of My Baldness" (2004) (dates are for the English translations from the Dutch) under the pseudonym "Marek van der Jagt." How his unique voice wasn't recognized the second time around is wholly incomprehensible.

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Jan 29, 2012
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A quattordici anni lessi dell'amour fou. Due settimane dopo avevo deciso: la vera vocazione dell'essere umano è l'amour fou. Che cosa significasse esattamente non lo sapevo; l'amour fou viene fornito senza un manuale di istruzioni</p>

Suvvia, è un libretto, ma non un cattivo libro. Diffonde una certa atmosfera stralunata che ricorda vagamente il Tamburo di Latta, ma finisce qui il paragone. La storia di questo Marek dalla minuscola "virtù", sul filo della dialettica tra volontà e

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Aug 09, 2010
Clint rated it: 4 of 5 stars
I give it 4.5 stars, minus a half star for being too into place names, a big pet peeve of mine. Another book I read on a complete whim, and another success. A really funny book about an extremely small-dicked quasi-philosophical dork who tries to score with ugly, sad, or old women in his endless search for "crazy love." I also liked the background of the writer, winning best first novel twice, because this book was written under a pseudonym. Kick ass. Not pretentious like I'd thou More...
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Apr 13, 2011
Vincent rated it: 5 of 5 stars
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Jul 10, 2011
Arne rated it: 4 of 5 stars
Misschien nog een keer lezen

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Mar 29, 2008
Marci rated it: 3 of 5 stars
Very funny/disturbing/tragic/ironic tale which may in fact become a movie (I have insider information). I'd recommend it, but only if you don't mind a couple of embarassing, albeit hilarious sex scenes. I won't say anymore...
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Jan 29, 2012
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Jan 16, 2012
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Nov 11, 2011
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