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Real World (Vintage International) - Paperback By Kirino, Natsuo - GOOD
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- Condition
- Brand
- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780307387486
- Book Title
- Real World
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2009
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Cultural Heritage, Thrillers / Psychological, Thrillers / General, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Coming of Age
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 6.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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In a crowded Tokyo suburb, four teenage girls indifferently wade their way through a hot, smoggy summer. When one of them, Toshi, discovers that her nextdoor neighbor has been brutally murdered, the girls suspect the killer is the neighbor's son. But when he flees, taking Toshi's bike and cell phone with him, the four girls get caught up in a tempest of dangers that rise from within them as well as from the world around them. Psychologically intricate and astute, Real World is a searing, eye-opening portrait of teenage life in Japan unlike any we have seen before.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307387488
ISBN-13
9780307387486
eBay Product ID (ePID)
71086512
Product Key Features
Book Title
Real World
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Cultural Heritage, Thrillers / Psychological, Thrillers / General, Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Coming of Age
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
6.8 Oz
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Reviews
"Disquieting and suspenseful." -Kathryn Harrison,The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant feminist noir. . . . Sleek, assured and disturbing. . . . Reads likeLittle Womenin an acid bath. . . .You won't want to miss it." -The Plain Dealer "Transfixing. . . . Kirino touches on much deeper issues than unlocking teenage diaries. . . . A psychologically complex story told in a breezy, adolescent way, reminiscent ofBonjour Tristesse." -The Philadelphia Inquirer "Kirino demands total submission to her characters' inner lives. . . . [Real World] challenges readers to confront the truth of human nature, to release judgments about violence and see beyond the act to its roots." -The Miami Herald "Instead of one lone maniac, Kirino makes adolescent ennui and detachment the villain, tracing out a spooky cultural phenomenon that makes this new translation a purely psychological thriller." -Time Out Chicago "Jealousy, solipsism, fear, arrogancethe mind of an adolescent can be a frustrating and scary place. . . . [Real World] takes us deep inside the heads of these kids." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "IfReal Worldis indeed a work of social realism, Kirino is either a masterful cynic or the cartographer of a very scary side of reality." -The New York Sun "It's rare to come across a book that is unlike anything you've ever read.Real Worldis such a book. . . . Kirino's mix of the savage and the mundane is masterful. . . . Hers is a fresh, contemporary voice that captures the attitude of youth culture around the world. . . . An addictive, compelling read." -Daily Camera(Boulder) "Disturbingly intimate. . . . [Kirino's characters] speak as one voice of youth in an utterly hypnotic, illuminating narrative." -Paste "A novel that looks at the emotional vacuum of teenage culture, one less affected by a brutal murder and its emotional aftershocks than by the glow of its association with a manufactured outlaw. . . . Kirino delves deeply into the feelings of isolation and hopelessness that each girl shares. . . . She works to understand how the girls can become so disassociated from their own moral center, ultimately insinuating that after being raised in a culture of texting, reality shows, etc., they're looking for any connection to the feeling world." -Providence Journal "Impressive. . . . [Real World's] sinister plot provides Kirino with plenty of welcome occasions to render the acute psychosexual portraiture at which she so excels. . . . Kirino's high-toned crime-fiction is, above all, morbidly fascinating." -The Tennessean "[A] taut thriller. . . . [Kirino] has a knack for portraying the lives of teenage girls." -More "Kirino creates a fictional universe in which the normal rules of engagement no longer apply. Through Worm, she chronicles the toxic fall-out of an educational system that fosters conformity above individualism. . . . And Philip Gabriel's excellent translation helps to bring this lurid tale into even sharper focus." -The Independent(UK) "Kirino has written a kind of anti-coming-of-age-novel. . . . Noir and coming-of-age are traditionally polar opposites, but Kirino brings them together brilliantly, showing that learning about yourself is not always a meaningful e, Praise for Natsuo Kirino'sReal World "Disquieting and suspenseful. . . . As Dostoyevsky did inCrime and Punishment, Kirino pushes her antihero to murder as a means of philosophical statement and communicates an authorial anxiety that contemporary social ills will destroy humanity." The New York Times Book Review "Kirino demands total submission to her characters' inner lives. . . . Rather than crafting a simple crime novel or painting a grotesque portrait of people ruled by perverse desires and criminal hearts, Kirino's narrative challenges readers to confront the truth of human nature, to release judgments about violence and see beyond the act to its roots." The Miami Herald "Instead of one lone maniac, Kirino makes adolescent ennui and detachment the villain, tracing out a spooky cultural phenomenon that makes this new translation a purely psychological thriller." Time Out Chicago "Brilliant feminist noir. . . . A sleek, assured and disturbing novel about four young women who get caught up in the aftermath of a murder. . . . Reads likeLittle Womenin an acid bath. Alcott would be stunned. . . . Unpredictable and merciless,Real Worldis hypnotic. . . . You won't want to miss it." The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Jealousy, solipsism, fear, arrogancethe mind of an adolescent can be a frustrating and scary place. . . . [Real World] takes us deep inside the heads of these kids." Los Angeles Times Book Review "IfReal Worldis indeed a work of social realism, Kirino is either a masterful cynic or the cartographer of a very scary side of reality." The New York Sun "It's rare to come across a book that is unlike anything you've ever read.Real Worldis such a book. . . . Kirino's mix of the savage and the mundane is masterful. . . . Hers is a fresh, contemporary voice that captures the attitude of youth culture around the world. . . . An addictive, compelling read." Daily Camera(Boulder, CO) "Disturbingly intimate. . . . [Kirino's characters] speak as one voice of youth in an utterly hypnotic, illuminating narrative." Paste "A novel that looks at the emotional vacuum of teenage culture, one less affected by a brutal murder and its emotional aftershocks than by the glow of its association with a manufactured outlaw. . . . Kirino delves deeply into the feelings of isolation and hopelessness that each girl shares. . . . She works to understand how the girls can become so disassociated from their own moral center, ultimately insinuating that after being raised in a culture of texting, reality shows, etc., they're looking for any connection to the feeling world." Providence Journal "Impressive. . . . [Real World's] sinister plot provides Kirino with plenty of welcome occasions to render the acute psychosexual portraiture at which she so excels. . . . Kirino's high-toned crime-fiction is, above all, morbidly fascinating." The Tennessean "[A] taut thriller. . . . [Kirino] has a knack for portraying the lives of teenage girls." More "Kirino has written a kind of anti-coming-of-age-novel. . . . Noir and coming-of-age are traditionally polar opposites, but Kirino brings them together brilliantly, showing that learning about yourself is not always a meaningful experience. Readers of Haruki Murakami'sAfter Darkwill feel right at home h, "Disquieting and suspenseful. . . . As Dostoyevsky did inCrime and Punishment, Kirino pushes her antihero to murder as a means of philosophical statement and communicates an authorial anxiety that contemporary social ills will destroy humanity." The New York Times Book Review "Brilliant feminist noir. . . . A sleek, assured and disturbing novel about four young women who get caught up in the aftermath of a murder. . . . Reads likeLittle Womenin an acid bath. Alcott would be stunned. . . . Unpredictable and merciless,Real Worldis hypnotic. . . . You won't want to miss it." The Cleveland Plain Dealer "Kirino demands total submission to her characters' inner lives. . . . Rather than crafting a simple crime novel or painting a grotesque portrait of people ruled by perverse desires and criminal hearts, Kirino's narrative challenges readers to confront the truth of human nature, to release judgments about violence and see beyond the act to its roots." The Miami Herald "Instead of one lone maniac, Kirino makes adolescent ennui and detachment the villain, tracing out a spooky cultural phenomenon that makes this new translation a purely psychological thriller." Time Out Chicago "It's difficult to break away from readingReal World.It's transfixing, and Kirino touches on much deeper issues than unlocking teenage diaries. She captures these youngsters at a turbulent and interstitial period of their lives, and like an updated sociological study, reevaluates a teenager's place in today's world. . . .Real Worldis not exactly a thriller, a mystery or a whodunit. It's a psychologically complex story told in a breezy, adolescent way, reminiscent ofBonjour Tristesse, Françoise Sagan's groundbreaking French novel written in the similarly disaffected, world-weary voice of a teenager." Helen Mitsios,The Philadelphia Inquirer "Jealousy, solipsism, fear, arrogancethe mind of an adolescent can be a frustrating and scary place. . . . [Real World] takes us deep inside the heads of these kids." Los Angeles Times Book Review "IfReal Worldis indeed a work of social realism, Kirino is either a masterful cynic or the cartographer of a very scary side of reality." The New York Sun "It's rare to come across a book that is unlike anything you've ever read.Real Worldis such a book. . . . Kirino's mix of the savage and the mundane is masterful. . . . Hers is a fresh, contemporary voice that captures the attitude of youth culture around the world. . . . An addictive, compelling read." Daily Camera(Boulder) "Disturbingly intimate. . . . [Kirino's characters] speak as one voice of youth in an utterly hypnotic, illuminating narrative." Paste "A novel that looks at the emotional vacuum of teenage culture, one less affected by a brutal murder and its emotional aftershocks than by the glow of its association with a manufactured outlaw. . . . Kirino delves deeply into the feelings of isolation and hopelessness that each girl shares. . . . She works to understand how the girls can become so disassociated from their own moral center, ultimately insinuating that after being raised in a culture of texting, reality shows, etc., they're looking for any connection to the feeling world." Providence Journal "Impressive. . . . [Real World's]
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Real World is a great book.
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