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Ladataan... Bark: Stories (2014)Tekijä: Lorrie Moore
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. The problem here is that I read this a while back and all the remains in my memory is the grim horror of the Rat King in the central story Wings. I know there is more here, dark stories about relationships and humans trying not to be alone, but all I'm left with is the Rat King. ( ) This collection of short stories is about all those messy, complicated real lives that happen after we are no longer young adults, when our lives have begun to crystallize into the much more limited range of real options we actually get to choose from, rather than the vast universe of possibilities life seemed to hold when we were younger. Happy endings in this collection are only happy within a narrow definition of happy, or with a few caveats and footnotes, but life does not just stop after one is no longer a young adult, and the characters in these stories are busy maintaining, remaking, and enjoying their adult lives to the extent that they can. Death happens, divorce happens, kids turn out to be mentally ill, and romantic encounters that younger lovers might imagine as destined and forever turn out to be just temporary or not nearly as idyllic as they 'ought' to be. But life goes on.
"As Coleridge famously remarked of Wordsworth that one might recognize his poetry anywhere, so readers of Lorrie Moore are likely to recognize her prose instantaneously: a unique combination of wit, caustic insight, sympathy for the pathos of her characters’ lives, and that peculiar sort of melancholy attributable to time too long spent in the northern Midwest where late-afternoon snow acquires a spectral blue tinge. " PalkinnotDistinctionsNotable Lists
Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
Humor (Fiction.)
HTML:A new collection of stories by one of America??s most beloved and admired short-story writers, her first in fifteen years, since Birds of America (??Fluid, cracked, mordant, colloquial . . . Will stand by itself as one of our funniest, most telling anatomies of human love and vulnerability.? ??The New York Times Book Review, cover). These eight masterly stories reveal Lorrie Moore at her most mature and in a perfect configuration of craft, mind, and bewitched spirit, as she explores the passage of time and summons up its inevitable sorrows and hilarious pitfalls to reveal her own exquisite, singular wisdom. In ??Debarking,? a newly divorced man tries to keep his wits about him as the United States prepares to invade Iraq, and against this ominous moment, we see??in all its irresistible wit and darkness??the perils of divorce and what can follow in its wake . . . In ??Foes,? a political argument goes grotesquely awry as the events of 9/11 unexpectedly manifest themselves at a fund-raising dinner in Georgetown . . . In ??The Juniper Tree,? a teacher visited by the ghost of her recently deceased friend is forced to sing ??The Star-Spangled Banner? in a kind of nightmare reunion . . . And in ??Wings,? we watch the inevitable unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians, neither of whom held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths, as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead-ends-ville and the workings of regret . . . Here are people beset, burdened, buoyed; protected by raising teenage children; dating after divorce; facing the serious illness of a longtime friend; setting forth on a romantic assignation abroad, having it interrupted mid-trip, and coming to understand the larger ramifications and the impossibility of the connection . . . stories that show people coping with large dislocation in their lives, with risking a new path to answer the desire to be in relation??to someone . . . Gimlet-eyed social observation, the public and private absurdities of American life, dramatic irony, and enduring half-cracked love wend their way through each of these narratives in a heartrending mash-up of the tragic and the laugh-out-loud??the hallmark of life in Lorrie-Moore-land. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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