Street Boys 9780743450270 Lorenzo Carcaterra

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Titel: Street Boys
Auteur: Lorenzo Carcaterra
ISBN: 9780743450270
Conditie: Echt gebruikt

Here is proof that when there's a film deal in the works, publishers will snap up the book and promote it as a literary event. Carcaterra, who landed on the big screen with his New York Times bestseller Sleepers, builds his flimsy tale around a Neapolitan legend describing a 1943 skirmish between armored German occupation forces and local street urchins. In doing so, he draws inspiration from a host of sources ranging from The Secret of Santa Vittoria to Saving Private Ryan. Steve Connors, an American commando cut off from his unit, joins forces with a group of Neapolitan slum children orphaned by the war. The one-dimensional characters and their names could have been taken from a war comic: there is the dutiful Nazi named Von Klaus, who knows that Germany will lose the war, but is determined to follow his orders no matter what; Nunzia, the love interest; even a faithful mastiff who stays by Connorss side throughout. The amateurish writing, especially the dialogue (The Nazis have destroyed Naples, but they have not destroyed us) seems formatted for quick and easy screen adaptation, weaving cookie-cutter moments together in picturesquely ravaged locales.

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