Block (the Weetzie Bat novels) sets herself new challenges and meets them with consummate grace in this resonant novel. Violet and Claire, best friends, are polar opposites: Violet is angry and intense, with a fierce ambition to write and direct films; Claire is passive, attempting poetic transcendence of the casual cruelties of everyday life. Each girl gets what she thinks she wants. Violet, still in high school, lands a six-figure film deal, and Claire begins a romance with her poetry teacher. But these fulfilled dreams sour, and Violet and Claire become painfully estranged. In a triumphant finale, they embrace, aware that their relationship restores the balance missing in their separate personalities. The elements of the storyAfairies, overnight fame, arts, sex and drugs, glamorous parties and, of course, the heady Los Angeles settingAare classic Block; the combination, however, is fresh and arresting, and her fans will applaud it. The narrative line is more pronounced than in previous works and, in another departure, provides a clear division between the fantastic and the real. The fairies, for example, belong to Claire's fantasy history of a lost race of "faeries" ("The patriarchy turned them into little insects," she explains to Violet). Cynical Violet and dreamy Claire alternate as narrators, projecting distinct voices that gradually come to resemble each other. Shedding a transformative light onto the often complex, sometimes dark nature of close friendships, Block's writing is as lush and luminous, as hip and wise as ever.
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Francesca Lia Block
É conhecida por seus romances e histórias inovadoras-pós-moderna, os contos de magia-realista que os leitores são transportados de paisagens corajosas da vida contemporânea para os reinos transcendente dos sentidos, onde o amor é sempre a nossa graça salvadora. Nascida em Los Angeles, onde vive até hoje, o trabalho de Block pulsa com a linguagem e imagens de subcultura irregulares da cidade. O Elogio de um crítico do New York Times Book Review, "Block escreve sobre a real Los Angeles melhor do que ninguém desde Raymond Chandler." Block descreveu seu trabalho como "contos de fadas contemporâneo, com uma ponta", onde o mundo real e suas dificuldades encontram consolo através da magia de expressão criativa e de amor. Ela recebeu inúmeras homenagens, incluindo o de Margaret A. Edwards Lifetime Achievement Award e o Phoenix Award, bem como citações da American Library Association, The New York Times Book Review e da School Library Journal, seu trabalho tem sido publicado em todo o mundo, traduzido em muitas línguas.
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Califórnia, EUA