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| Title | : | All About Lulu |
| Author | : | Jonathan Evison |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 344 pages |
| Published | : | May 28th 2008 by Soft Skull Press |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Young Adult. Adult Fiction. Coming Of Age. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
Jonathan Evison
Paperback | Pages: 344 pages Rating: 3.65 | 1280 Users | 218 Reviews
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Weakness has always been a concern for William Miller: growing up vegetarian in a family of bodybuilders will do that to a person. But William is further weakened by the death of his mother, the arrival of a new step-mother, and his irrepressible crush on his new step-sister, Lulu. As Lulu faces down her own challenges, William watches his life shift into tumult and despair. Once Lulu departs for college, Will goes into the world to find himself — discovering Western philosophy, a cruel dating world, enduring friendship, and, ultimately, his true calling. Emboldened by his turn as a late-night radio personality, Will rescues himself from the self-image of weakness he'd long wished to escape. This debut novel explores the fundamental difference between where we come from — and the endless possibilities of where we may go.
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| Original Title: | All About Lulu |
| ISBN: | 1593761961 (ISBN13: 9781593761967) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Washington State Book Award for Fiction (2009) |
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Ratings: 3.65 From 1280 Users | 218 ReviewsWrite Up Appertaining To Books All About Lulu
post-read: All About Lulu is a really really good book. Really! It's one of those books that moves so fast and smoothly, it really pushes you along, hurrying you toward brink after brink; though really it's always the same brink, it's just delayed for over three hundred pages. Plus it's really funny. That's super hard to do well! Humor is so subjective, especially in book form, but I was smiling about every other page, and actually chuckling aloud, on a crowded subway at least once perSo, the title pretty much gives it away: Will, our runty, brooding, vegetarian protagonist, is hopelessly obsessed with Lulu. Too bad she's his stepsister. C'est la vie. The character development throughout the novel is stellar, from Will's lovable, meat crazed, bodybuilding dad, to his knucklehead twin brothers, to Will's assortment of friends, or if I'm permitted a trashy magazine moment, frienemies. And don't be surprised if in the course of reading, you find yourself obsessing over Lulu.
Lulu has all the makings of a good book. It's a complexly woven and somewhat original love-and-loss tale with emotion-inducing characters told by a seemingly warm and friendly narrator named Will. Unfortunately, as things progress, the author amasses more and more of the makings of a bad book. Awkward turns of phrase, cliched plot-turns, and even bouts of just plain boring filler. Things are more or less OK until Part Two (of two), when Lulu sort of disappears and leaves Will to fend for himself
I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Evison's quirky, moving "The Fundamentals of Caregiving" and have read several of his books looking for the same qualities to no avail. I really thought Lulu would be the one. From the beginning, we know that Lulu has a BIG secret -- a LIFE-CHANGING secret -- a secret that is so CAPTIVATING we will turn page upon page, panting in anticipation of learning what it is. At some point, the buildup began to annoy me. I could think of no secret that would be worth all of this
I'm going to cheat here a little and post the same review I posted for Jonathan's novel on Amazon.com:Everyone can relate to this wonderfully quirky debut novel from Jonathan Evison. The story speaks with honesty, wistfulness, humor, and sadness to anyone who ever felt like an outcast even within their own family, anyone who remembers the thrill of finding that one person who "gets" them, anyone who felt the flush of first love and the crushing blow of that love disappearing, and to anyone who
As I greedily read All About Lulu, with the wit dripping from my chin and philosophical musings staining my favorite t-shirt, I finished this meal feeling full and satisfied.All About Lulu is a book exploring the American psyche from the 1960's up to the 1990's through the mind of Will Miller, a runt in a family of bodybuilders. And though the main protagonist is Will, it really is all about Lulu, a force that not only changes Will's life, but kind of changed mine too.Mr Evison weaved this tale
This book is the inverse of Ms. Hempel Chronicles (see my review). It lacks the literary polish of Shun-lien Bynum's writing (though it's plenty accomplished), but it DOES recognize that THE story is not the obvious story. Evison gets it, since the title of the book is ALL ABOUT LULU but it's also bigger than that.Lulu is the narrator's siste (STEP-sister, that is) on whom he has a crush beyond crushes: he's totally in love with her. This love is returned but in complicated ways. That's the
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