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Ladataan... Ninety-Nine Stories of GodTekijä: Joy Williams
   - Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I really enjoyed this book! It's a bunch of vignettes, some irreverent, some poetic, others peculiar. Still, they make a cohesive whole. It's an easy ready, and it's something different. I highly recommend this book. (  ) beckyrenner | Aug 3, 2023 |  3.5/5 (  ) jarrettbrown | Jul 4, 2023 | If one can ignore the extremely high expectations for this collection of short short stories roused by the overexuberant blurbers and accept that there is nothing evident concerning the nature of the divine in many if not most of these stories, one can enjoy this. The collection is a modest success, with a hit rate similar to most story collections. By far the best stories are the ones which bring in God; too many of the others are head-scratchers or simply shaggy dog stories. The book is a two-night read and is a pleasant use of reading time if one doesn't ask the world of it. ( ) Big_Bang_Gorilla | Jun 15, 2022 | The use of short form in this book and the choice to put titles at the ends of each piece are effective tools for creating a mosaic effect. The reappearance of the Lord figure serves as a delicate and barely traceable pattern to hold the work together. Each piece read like a little stone, meant to be extremely weighty. Some accomplished this well, but others seemed like trifling pebbles. This is the first Williams I have read, and as such, it felt like a good introduction to a witty and broad writing style. ( ) et.carole | Jan 21, 2022 | This little gathering of vignettes is beautiful, often hauntingly so -- however, as with so much fragmentary fiction, collage, whatever, it lacks the sweeping arc of a novel -- I found myself equally rapt on story 99 as I did on story 1, and I've yet to read in this form a book that doesn't have that problem. (  ) Aaron.Cohen | May 28, 2020 | ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
Seldom occupying more than a couple of pages, Williams' stories are headed by a number, one to 99, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist has a one-of-a-kind gift for capturing both the absurdity and the darkness of everyday life. In Ninety-Nine Stories of God, she takes on one of mankind's most confounding preoccupations: the Supreme Being. This series of short, fictional vignettes explores our day-to-day interactions with an ever-elusive and arbitrary God. It's the Book of Common Prayer as seen through a looking glass--a powerfully vivid collection of seemingly random life moments. The figures that haunt these stories range from Kafka (talking to a fish) to the Aztecs, Tolstoy to Abraham and Sarah, O.J. Simpson to a pack of wolves. Most of Williams' characters, however, are like the rest of us: anonymous strivers and bumblers who brush up against God in the least expected places or go searching for him when he's standing right there. The Lord shows up at a hot-dog-eating contest, a demolition derby, a formal gala, and a drugstore, where he's in line to get a shingles vaccination. At turns comic and yearning, lyric and aphoristic, Ninety-Nine Stories of God serves as a pure distillation of one of our great artists. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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 Google Books — Ladataan...LajityypitMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Kongressin kirjaston luokitusArvio (tähdet)Keskiarvo: (3.61)
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