Romantic Comedy
Кертис Ситтенфельд
| Издательство: | Random House |
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ISBN: 978-0399590948, 0399590943
Год издания: 2023
Язык: Английский
320 стр
Возрастные ограничения: 18+
RON CHARLES, THE WASHINGTON POST
"Has a lot going for it, starting with truth in advertising ... The story's romance is appropriately spring-loaded with improbability. What really energizes the story, though, is its setting in America's most venerable comedy factory: Saturday Night Live ... In Sittenfeld's quick-paced prose, the work becomes terrifically exciting and reminds us how rarely we get to see what people actually do at the office ... What makes all this particularly delightful is that the woman narrating Romantic Comedy is hyper-aware of the conventions of romantic comedy, and she knows full well that real life is no fairy tale."
"I found myself wishing for a greater helping of Sittenfeld's dark humor ... I wonder if the author, having decided to set a novel in the world of comedy, may have second-guessed her instincts. Some of the jokes here are undercut by apologies ... By the end, I was rooting for the two of them to make it to the romantic finish line. Noah, though, may be more of a woman's fantasy of a man than a fully fleshed out (sparring) partner for Sally ... Sittenfeld, with this diverting and easily devoured novel, may have scored an overdue victory of sorts for gender parity."
