- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Vintage; New edition edition (12 Nov 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099268450
- ISBN-13: 978-0099268451
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13 x 2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 416,308 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A precocious new wunderkind, Grunberg first published this novel in the Netherlands when he was only 22 years old, and it immediately garnered comparisons to Philip Roth's Goodbye, Columbus. The comparison is deserved. Grunberg displays flashes of Roth's talent and wit, updated for a '90s audience. Our hero is a disenfranchised young slacker, prowling the seamy and sleazy back alleys of Amsterdam's red-light district, finding redemption in his comic take on life's saddest fringes.
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Arnon Grunberg, this novel's protagonist, is a man on the run. Expelled from school, uneasy with his family, he spends his days and nights living a vagabond's life on the streets of Amsterdam. He soon starts visiting prostitutes, but beneath the comic ribaldry lies a profound sadness.
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0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Started reading with interest but as I got further into the book, it became sleepy..... and boring......
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Blue Monday ain't blue at all
3 Dec 2008
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Better-than-new book by one of the greats of Dutch literature from a seller who offers a better price than ever seen anywhere, including Amazon, when the book was in print. Highly recommended.
1 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Bijbelse Verhalen Voor Jonge Kinderen
26 Oct 2000
Format:Hardcover
Amazon.com suggests that readers of Arnon Grunberg's novel would also enjoy "Bible Stories for Young Children". Mr. Grunberg would no doubt enjoy that irony. Mr. Grunberg's bildungsromane about growing up in A'dam as a disaffected youth is mildly entertaining at times. In his attempt to shock us with his character's utter inability to care, his complete lack of direction and connection, however, one quickly looses interest. This is no "Goodbye Columbus" or "Catcher in the Rye" as the jacket copy writers claim.
3 of 7 people found the following review helpful
The wonder-author of the Netherlands speaks
26 Jan 1999
Format:Hardcover
Arnon Grunberg, 28 years old, has written a lot of columns in the newspaper "NRC Dagblad". He quit school when he was 16 for cutting classes. This amazing man, who designed a writing style which no writer has done before, debuted with "Blue Mondays". This book is definitely a gold mine. The writing style is unique, and you speed through the book, for Grunberg's sentences have this effect on the reader. This I know from the fact that I've read his other 3 books (not yet translated in English). It is very pleasent to read. I quote "Grunberg goes to the hookers a few times, and suddenly he's a famous author". The fact that he went to the hookers, just makes sure you get a strong impression on how the writer thinks, for he describes these experiences in great detail. Still, until the last part of the story, you are again and again amazed on his true, or possible made up, memories. An astonishing book from an amazing writer. A true recommendation.
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