Guess and Check is a Giron/Valdez Series for Unique Voices in Literature Book A stark, engrossing, Hemingway-esque portrait of a life spent in the margins.
--Kirkus Reviews .
tough and funny and touching and harrowing.
--John Barth .
Guess and Check is spare, subtle and deadpan, Charles Simic married to Joyce Carol Oates.
A beautifully constructed delicate narrative, a near dream of a book, a place 'vulnerable to anyone who wants to break through the glass.
' --Terese Svoboda, author of Bohemian Girl Guess and Check is not an ordinary memoir; instead, it is a creative look at the life of a biracial boy--later seen as a young man--who adjusts with difficulty to lessons learned from the behavior of his parents and the people around him.
In his rural-America world, he is an observer of dysfunction.
He doesn't identify with either of his parents--his mother is Asian and his father is Caucasian--or most of the children he meets in school.
He observes the addictive pattern of his artist father and the alien behavior of his Confucian mother, but he doesn't understand what he sees.
At times he is bullied, at other times ignored, so he seeks a way out.
In this series of short stories, we observe his outsider experience which doesn't improve during his college years or his life as a young man.
His quirky ideas about sex and relationships hold him back.
Romantic situations usually devolve into obsessive-compulsive acting out.
Such insobriety leads him into dark, half-humorous encounters.
Later, we see him as an employee for an unnamed company, where he feels anxiety that leads to surreal incidents, bordering between bad dreams and what might actually happen.
Through the experiences of life, he eventually learns to get along with others, even love the people around him, though these feelings don't come easily.
As a first-time father, he observes the alien behavior of his child; other times, he feels as if he's sleepwalking.
Yet through it all, his journey with.
GUESS a fost înființată în 1981 de frații Marciano, care au părăsit sudul Franței în căutarea visului american.
Inspirați de o influență europeană, Marcianos a redefinit denimul.
Unul dintre modelele lor inițiale a fost un jean spălat, subțire, cu 3 fermoare Marilyn.
Bloomingdale's a fost primul magazin universal care a întâmpinat marca comandând două duzini de perechi de blugi.
Au dispărut de pe rafturi în doar câteva ore.
Acesta a fost începutul unei lungi povești de succes.
GUESS a devenit rapid un simbol al unui stil de viață tânăr, sexy și aventuros.
De-a lungul deceniilor GUESS a invitat oamenii să viseze cu campaniile sale de publicitate iconice și atemporale care au transformat fețele necunoscute în modele celebre.
În 2004, compania s-a extins cu un nou concept de retail pentru colecția sa contemporană numită Marciano.
Marca Marciano oferă o colecție de modă, concepută pentru femei și bărbați cu tendințe.
În 2007, s-a născut conceptul de retail G by GUESS, care și-a câștigat estetica din sudul Californiei din pasiunea personală a fraților Marciano pentru stilul de viață tânăr din California de care s-au bucurat atât de mult când s-au mutat pentru prima dată în America.
Astăzi GUESS este un brand de stil de viață cu adevărat global, cu o gamă completă de denim, îmbrăcăminte și accesorii oferite în peste 80 de țări din întreaga lume.
Gival Press Guess and check, paperback/thaddeus rutkowski
