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Ladataan... Festival DaysTekijä: Jo Ann Beard
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. I have been thinking for several hours about what I can say about this collection. The only thing I can seem to come up with is "wow." Not very helpful, is it? Still, it covers my thoughts pretty well. Beard was early to the conceit of blending fiction with non, and she does it so well. Truly, I often don't generally feel great about this blurring. Often this device seems lazy, but not in Beard's works. She takes truth as far as it can go, moving to fiction when straight reporting cannot tell the true story. For my friends who feel visceral delight when they read great prose, this is indeed an ecstatic experience. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
A collection that includes seven essays and two pieces of short fiction and captures both the small moments of daily existence and times when life and death hang in the balance, including the title work about a searing journey through India. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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There were some other good essays in the collection (and apparently at least one fictional piece), but there were also several duds that I really didn't connect with. The other essay that really stuck with me was a long piece about a woman named Cheri as she contemplates and seeks out Dr. Kevorkian's assistance when she decides to stop fighting a terminal disease.
This was a spotty, but decent read. I probably wouldn't have remembered the author's name for 15 or 20 years if this had been the first book of hers I read, rather than The Boys of My Youth.
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