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Turn of the Century: A Novel Taschenbuch – 11. Juli 2000

von Kurt Andersen (Author)
3,8 3,8 von 5 Sternen 64 Sternebewertungen
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“A big, sprawling book . . . [Kurt Andersen has] infused it with so much inventive imagination. . . . Should be put in a Manhattan time capsule with the note: ‘This is how we lived at the turn of the century.’ ”—The New York Times Book Review
 
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In his brash, brilliant first novel, New York Times bestselling author Kurt Andersen casts a penetrating eye on our giddy, media-obsessed era. With a keen sense of irony and a storyteller’s grace, he weaves a tale that is at once a biting satire and a wickedly incisive portrait of marriage, family, love, and friendship.
 
The millennium is here. BarbieWorld has opened in Las Vegas. Charles Manson’s parole hearing is on live TV. And George and Lizzie are a Manhattan power couple with three kids in private school and take-out from Hiroshima Boy waiting at the door. Lizzie owns a software start-up. George is a TV producer. With cell phones tickling their thighs and gossip buzzing in their ears, their future couldn’t be brighter. Until, that is, Lizzie cuts a deal with George’s boss and gets an office twenty-one floors above her husband’s. Until all the glitter and the hype threaten to destroy George’s and Lizzie’s sanity and their marriage. Until the only thing that can save them is a little understanding—at a time when everyone is talking but no one hears a thing.
 
“Savagely subversive . . . a smart, funny and excruciatingly deft portrait of our age.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
“Inspired . . . astonishing . . . very funny.”—Entertainment Weekly  
 
“A big, Tom Wolfe–ish New York comic novel . . . on the last breath of the century.”—Elle
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  1. Seitenzahl der Print-Ausgabe
    672 Seiten
  2. Sprache
    Englisch
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    Random House Trade Paperbacks
  4. Erscheinungstermin
    11. Juli 2000
  5. Abmessungen
    15.49 x 3.45 x 23.34 cm
  6. ISBN-10
    0385335040
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0385335041
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  • Boson
    4,0 von 5 Sternen a big messy satire
    Bewertet in den USA am28. September 2007
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    I can understand why so many people gave up on this book, but I can't help but feel sorry that they did. For me, Kurt Andersen wrote a novel that perfectly reflects the CNN/Fox News sound bite journalism and MTV/YouTube short attention span entertainment that rules our culture today not just with his story, but with the structure of the book. He overloads the reader with information which he repeats again and again until it finally comes together like the sections of a pointillist painting to present Andersen's very cynical and very funny view of the Information Age. It's like a mirror reflecting a mirror, reflecting a mirror, ad infinitum. I admit it's not an easy read, but if you can dance through it, you'll find a story and point of view that's unusually original, entertaining, and most definitely worthwhile. As for me, I'm off to buy Heyday.
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  • Elizabeth Blackwelder
    5,0 von 5 Sternen A Truly Inventive Satire
    Bewertet in den USA am12. März 2002
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    Kurt Andersen's got one heck of an imagination. Some of the scenarios he comes up with for the not-so-distant future are just downright neat!
    I also enjoyed the almost soap-operatic feel of watching George and Lizzie's day to day lives progress, both at the office and in their home. It was interesting to watch how different they were to each other in the world of business and the world of matrimony/family. (Brings to mind the saying, "One never really knows anyone.")
    I've heard that perhaps the book doesn't appeal to people who live too far outside large urban centers, but I can't see why that would be true. Most of us are attached to the Internet these days, most love "modern conveniences," and most would like to have more money than we do. Seems like that would be enough to make this a book that could appeal to anyone, despite geography. I mean, yes, it might appeal to New Yorkers MORE, but that's because we're reading about our hometown here. I also love Motherless Brooklyn (which takes place in the neighborhood where I grew up), but just because I can recognize what deli Letham's talking about doesn't mean it isn't worthy of its National Book Critic's Circle Award, ya know?
    In summary, I loved the book. I also loved the end, which a lot of people seem to think was a disappointment. The book might run on a bit long, but for me it was an extremely satisfying read, and one that I've personally recommended -- especially to people who DO like books based in New York.
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  • Lawrence Neil
    4,0 von 5 Sternen A clever,funny and unique look at NYC, LA and Microsoft
    Bewertet in den USA am14. Oktober 1999
    The author made more amusing and accurate observations in any two pages chosen at random than other books or magazines do in their entirety. He does not just name-drop, as some of the reviewers have claimed; rather, he sharply and often very funnily comments on TV, education, Wall Street, computers and their use, the kind of people who are involved in each of the above cited areas, families, love, relationships, the United States and the world. He casts a deadly accurate eye on various topics, most of which bring a smile or a nod by the reader. For example, there is a Howard Stern interview on the radio that is scripted exactly as I believe it would sound. It is true that the book is a bit long(and for that reason, I give it 4 instead of 5 stars), but the point is more than the plot. The incisive observations are worth the journey (to the Millenium), and there is a real story as he races to the finish line. I definitely think it is worth the time to read as there is no book like it.
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  • mwhi
    3,0 von 5 Sternen Three Stars
    Bewertet in den USA am25. August 2015
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    Interesting but not a page turner.
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  • Chester
    5,0 von 5 Sternen Loved the book
    Bewertet in den USA am18. Oktober 2018
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    He is such a good voice
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  • Steve Sanders
    4,0 von 5 Sternen Is it art imitating life, or the other way around?
    Bewertet in den USA am26. Mai 2002
    This book has marvelously drawn characters and a deft plot. But what lingers in my mind are the constant, droll little absurdities that abound in the characters' world, understated seeming little asides which charactertize postmodern American urban and media life. And give Andersen credit that he was actually prescient, in that things we accept as unremarkable are getting more postmodern and more absurd all the time. Every time I see or read about something like the Secretary of the Treasury touring the Third World with Bono, I think to myself, "this is just like something out of 'Turn of the Century.'"
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  • madmanxman
    1,0 von 5 Sternen One unused to dispose of
    Bewertet in den USA am13. August 2001
    Turn of the century continues to serve a most useful purpose, months after I gave up on it. I have a door that rattles if it's not wedged open and T-o-C is just big enough and heavy enough to do the job on its own. I struggled, oh how I struggled to try and even begin to understand some of the characters. I stirred the pages wildly while I waited for the plot to thicken. I fought against closing eyelids while the book became heavier and heavier. I searched my abridged guide to good grammar to see if I had missed a couple of chapters explaining that sentences after all don't need a subject, a verb and an object - or even a permutation of two out of three. I left it on the front doorstep hoping somebody would steal it. I offered it to my neighbor so he could jack up his car. I considered lighting the fire with it. I wondered whether, if I took just a few pages a day, I could eat it and get rid of the evidence. I offered it to my mother-in-law for Christmas. I took it scuba diving with me instead of a weight belt. And then, eventually, voila! The rattling door! What a fine tome T-o-C is. Another few hundred pages [...] and I could have used it as a sea anchor for the Titanic.
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  • Simon D. Levy
    2,0 von 5 Sternen Novelization of a sitcom
    Bewertet in den USA am9. Juni 1999
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    I'm halfway through this book and still waiting for something interesting to happen. Instead I keep seeing the same predictable sitcom cliche's, dressed up with a few quirky "postmodern" twists and swear-words. I guess the conceit here is that Anderson's characters are exactly like the silly stereotypes in the TV shows and video games that they produce. In fact, if the main character weren't missing a hand, I would have no sympathy for any of the yuppie jerks in this novel, and would be looking forward to something awful happening to the lot of them. (Perhaps the handicap was suggested by an editor who felt the same way.)
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  • Kirk McElhearn
    4,0 von 5 Sternen Fifteen years on, how much has changed?
    Bewertet in Großbritannien am 9. Oktober 2014
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    Trying to be a cutting-edge novel at the time it was written, no doubt, much of the book deals with two characters, one working in television, another in a fledgling software startup. But reading this book in 2014 - 15 years after it was published - is interesting. There is a lot that hasn't changed, in both of these industries, and, while reality TV wasn't yet a thing, and the internet was still new, the characters and their hubris (and BS) is very similar to the way things work today.

    Andersen probably wanted this to be the millennial version of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities, and, as such, wrote a sprawling novel that could have been 300 pages shorter. But he has a compelling voice, and the characters in the book were interesting enough to keep following. It's hard to see it as much more than a historical document, but what I found interesting was that one of the characters, TV produced George Mactier, describes the plot of Andersen's third novel, True Believers, which was published last year.

    Andersen in a good writer; he needed a good editor on this novel. It's a fun ride, but, in the end, just not satisfying enough to be memorable.
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