La vida sexual de las gemelas siamesas

by Irvine Welsh

Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

118

Description

Miami. Ciudad de contrastes: aquí conviven los cuerpos esculturales con la obesidad más desbocada. Una de las poseedoras de un cuerpo escultural, la entrenadora personal y experta en fitness Lucy Brennan, se convierte en una heroína local cuando en plena calle desarma a un hombre con una pistola que estaba a punto de matar a dos personas. La prensa sensacionalista la adora y rápidamente pone todo el empeño en convertirla en un fenómeno mediático. También queda prendada de ella una testigo de su actuación, Lena Sorensen, una mujer obesa, obsesa y deprimida.

Fascinada por Lucy, Lena quiere contratarla como entrenadora personal para que la ayude a perder unos kilos. Y cuando los destinos de estas dos mujeres antitéticas se cruzan, se pone en marcha una relación cargada de amor loco, obcecación compulsiva y sadomasoquismo, enriquecida con toda una parafernalia de esposas para inmovilizar, dildos y comida, mucha comida, además de un cadáver que habrá que esconder en algún lado. Y, mientras tanto, descubren las dos por televisión la historia deunas siamesas que han decidido operarse para separarse y de paso convertir la intervención quirúrgica en un espectáculo mediático.

El gran narrador de las adicciones, pone aquí el foco en algunas genuinamente americanas: el sexo, el físico perfecto, la comida, la obsesión por la fama y el empeño de los medios en convertirlo todo en un circo. Con Miami como escenario caluroso y colorista, esta novela nos presenta a un Welsh en estado de gracia, con una historia salvaje, enloquecida, desternillante y arrolladora. Un tour de force que aplica la lupa y las lentes distorsionantes a la realidad americana y sus excesos, con una explosiva combinación de culto al cuerpo, perversión sexual, obesidad y telebasura.

Description

"When Lucy Brennan, a Miami Beach personal-fitness trainer, disarms an apparently crazed gunman chasing two frightened homeless men along a deserted causeway at night, the police and the breaking-news cameras are not far behind. Within hours, Lucy becomes a hero. Her celebrity is short-lived, though: the 'crazed gunman,' turns out to be a victim of child sexual abuse and the two men are serial pedophiles. The solitary eye-witness, the depressed and overweight Lena Sorenson, thrilled by Lucy's heroism and decisiveness, becomes obsessed with the trainer and enrolls as a client at her Bodysculpt gym. It quickly becomes clear that Lena is more interested in Lucy's body than her own"--Dust jacket flap.

Collection

Publication

Editorial Anagrama (2015), Edition: 1, 384 pages

Physical description

384 p.; 9 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member zmagic69
Reading a book from Irvine Welsh, is unlike any other author. When I read both Filth, and Porno I wondered what a book by this author would be like if it were written in American English rather than Scottish English like those two books were. Now I have my answer. While The Sex Lives Of Siamese
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Twins is milder than both Filth and Porno, make no mistake it is an Irvine Welsh book.
It tells the story of Lucy, a personal trainer, who lives and works in Miami, who becomes a celebrity of the week for preventing a man from committing murder. Lena is a woman who manages to film Lucy prevent the man from committing the murder.
Then everything falls apart. The man attempting to kill the two other men is more than justified in killing them. Extreme left and right wing politicians weigh in and further divide the population regarding the attempted killing. the Lucy is extremely unbalanced yet makes it her personal mission to make Lena lose weight. Lena has a whole set of her own personal issues and feeds right in to Lucy's craziness.
The story skewers health fads, exercise routines, America's obsession with reality TV, and celebrity, political correctness, and every Miami stereotype.
Do not read this book if you are offended by any of the following:
1. Graphical sex
2. Extremely graphical lesbian sex
3. Excessive use of really every four letter word you can think of.
4. Making fun of and using nasty descriptions of overweight people.
5. Stereotyping of everyone especially gay people, of which Lucy and Lena and many of the characters turn out to be, or are Bi.
6. If you are at all politically correct, and can't laugh at some parts of it.
As I said an Irvine Welsh book is not for the faint of heart, but this book is entertaining in a very dark way.
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LibraryThing member hhornblower
I think the blurb from The Sunday Times on the back cover best captures this book, "Welsh's novel makes for a boisterous, exuberant beach read". This is very engrossing (and sometimes disturbing) brain candy. Not his best work, but like James Ellroy, you know what you're going to get from Mr.
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Welsh.
My one complaint is the graphic, gratuitous sex scenes. I'm not a prude by any means, but the sex scenes were obviously written by a guy, for other guys. Which again, isn't necessarily bad, but is just a little incongruous coming from female characters.
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LibraryThing member zmagic69
Reading a book from Irvine Welsh, is unlike any other author. When I read both Filth, and Porno I wondered what a book by this author would be like if it were written in American English rather than Scottish English like those two books were. Now I have my answer. While The Sex Lives Of Siamese
Show More
Twins is milder than both Filth and Porno, make no mistake it is an Irvine Welsh book.
It tells the story of Lucy, a personal trainer, who lives and works in Miami, who becomes a celebrity of the week for preventing a man from committing murder. Lena is a woman who manages to film Lucy prevent the man from committing the murder.
Then everything falls apart. The man attempting to kill the two other men is more than justified in killing them. Extreme left and right wing politicians weigh in and further divide the population regarding the attempted killing. the Lucy is extremely unbalanced yet makes it her personal mission to make Lena lose weight. Lena has a whole set of her own personal issues and feeds right in to Lucy's craziness.
The story skewers health fads, exercise routines, America's obsession with reality TV, and celebrity, political correctness, and every Miami stereotype.
Do not read this book if you are offended by any of the following:
1. Graphical sex
2. Extremely graphical lesbian sex
3. Excessive use of really every four letter word you can think of.
4. Making fun of and using nasty descriptions of overweight people.
5. Stereotyping of everyone especially gay people, of which Lucy and Lena and many of the characters turn out to be, or are Bi.
6. If you are at all politically correct, and can't laugh at some parts of it.
As I said an Irvine Welsh book is not for the faint of heart, but this book is entertaining in a very dark way.
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Call number

118

Language

Original language

Spanish

ISBN

843397937X / 9788433979377
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