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Average rating2.9
From the award-winning author of Five, Six, Seven, Nate! and Better Nate Than Ever comes “a Holden Caulfield for a new generation” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). Quinn Roberts is a sixteen-year-old smart aleck and Hollywood hopeful whose only worry used to be writing convincing dialogue for the movies he made with his sister Annabeth. Of course, that was all before—before Quinn stopped going to school, before his mom started sleeping on the sofa…and before the car accident that changed everything. Enter: Geoff, Quinn’s best friend who insists it’s time that Quinn came out—at least from hibernation. One haircut later, Geoff drags Quinn to his first college party, where instead of nursing his pain, he meets a guy—okay, a hot guy—and falls, hard. What follows is an upside-down week in which Quinn begins imagining his future as a screenplay that might actually have a happily-ever-after ending—if, that is, he can finally step back into the starring role of his own life story.
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Fine not great. Comparisons to Simon vs Homosapien agenda and that's much better. Federle's a screenwriter, so incorporating in aspects of moviemaking was interesting, but for someone praising his own ear for dialogue, a lot of the narration felt clunky and not super authentic.
The Great American Whatever est un très joli roman sur le deuil d'un adolescent homosexuel, même si son homosexualité n'est pas le sujet de l'histoire, plutôt un détail, mais cela fait justement partie des qualités de ce livre. Le sujet principal du récit, c'est le deuil du narrateur dont la soeur aînée dont il était très proche est morte dans un accident de voiture devant son lycée. Après six mois de dépression, Quinn commence à sortir de chez lui grâce à l'aide de son meilleur ami Geoff. Ce sera un parcours difficile et douloureux, mais indispensable.
Il s'agit d'un roman vraiment réussi, avec quelques surprises que je n'avais pas vu venir, et surtout un style à la fois drôle et touchant.