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Alysson Oliveira
Mar 01, 2016 rated it it was amazing
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No posfácio da reedição de 2013, da New York Review of Books, de SPEEDBOAT, de Renata Adler, Guy Trebay diz que “os anos de 1970 foram a manhã seguinte dos anos de 1960 – a ressaca”. Publicado originalmente em 1976, o romance é a ressaca da ressaca. Composto mais de fragmentos narrados por uma repórter observadora, o livro é uma tentativa de compreender o vazio existencial que se abateu na década posterior àquela dos protestos e do espírito revolucionário – quando se imaginava que o mundo era pa ...more
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