I wanted to know more about Lex but because major portion of the story is told through Marina, Lex’s inner thoughts aren’t explored that much. Story can be slightly hard to follow at times because it’s not linear but I recommend just reading on, you’ll catch it. The language is beautiful and poetic, and I can see if someone finds the book a bit confusing because of it, but I think it was easy enough and very pretty.
It’s a story of forbidden love Marina and Lex seem to be oddly fond of each other and it puts them at unease. In the center of Wasteland are teenage siblings Marina and Lex and Marina’s friend West. She has written many ya books which often have elements of magical realism or fantasy.
Wasteland is a young adult contemporary book from popular American writer Francesca Lia Block. (Nov.Arvio englanniksi, koska satuin tänään kirjoittamaan tästä kirjasta muualla, eikä kirjaa ole suomennettukaan. Still, sophisticated teens are likely to be enthralled by Block's bold and poetic experiment her skill with words never flags. An 11th-hour twist underscores this feeling. Though undeniably attention-grabbing, this dramatic plot element seems almost forced, as if it were added on just in case the luscious prose and the authenticity of the teen scene were not enough to hold readers' attention.
Those were pearls that were his eyes' " (a reference to Eliot's clairvoyant, Madame Sosostris). One of Lex's early narratives offers a clue, as he describes a visit to a psychic after the incident: "Here it comes, I thought. Through hints, whispers and delicate shudders, the glittering, fragmented narration-told mostly by Marina, but also by West and even by the deceased Lex-moves back and forth through time, gradually revealing the central incident that drives the novel's action: the evening the siblings strayed into physical intimacy in a sunken bathtub. With the help of her classmate (and aspiring love interest) West, Marina sets out to come to terms with the forces that led to her brother's death. Marina's life is shattered by the death (likely a suicide) of her older brother, the surfing punk rocker Lex. Comes a picture-perfect vision of mid-1970s Los Angeles, shimmering with Block's signature California-style magical realism and delicately overlaid with allusions to T.S.
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