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Ladataan... The Last ShotTekijä: Leon Rooke
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. Eleven tirelessly inventive stories and a novella; each has a certain flourish, a sense that the author is saying, "watch what I bust loose on ya this time," and it never grows old or seems contrived. Magic realism in the short story, unless executed at a high level, often seems to be nothing but a gimmick adopted to relieve a writer of the chore of creating interest in a straightforward, realist narrative. It declares the story's originality with a blast of trumpets, shouts, "look at me, I am new." This is, no doubt, why it has become a staple of our little magazines. But there is no such cheap trickery here. Rooke's stories are above all vocal performances; they're about voice. This is most obvious in the dialect-soaked novella, "Gator Wrestling"; at first, getting past the dialect is challenging, but then you adapt. And it offers up gems like this: In Prissy's estimation Ganger was a boy of weirdly morbid and demented disposition. He was gravely barbecued in the belfry. Not only barbecued, but gravely so, and in the belfry no less. Rooke, in this novella, invents his own idiom. Standout stories in this volume include the hilarious "How to Write a Successful Short Story," in which a novice writer sits down to do just that, "Lamplighter Bridegroom 360," which proceeds not from character-with-problem but from the reader's curiosity as to what the heck is going on, and "The Last Shot," which won the CBC Literary Award. Highly recommended. näyttää 2/2 ei arvosteluja | lisää arvostelu
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From one of Canada''s most compelling and imaginative writers of short fiction comes a new collection of eleven stories and a novella. 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:
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Here’s an example from ‘Magi Dogs’
I had no sooner finished my new painting, White Cottage with Green Shutters, when a dog poked its nose in the door, looked me over with only the mildest interest, then without further ado trotted up the painting’s cottage path, yawned, and at once dropped down asleep by the front steps.
In 'The Last Shot' devious twins Pam and Roy torment their care-taker, their blind grandfather, while their mother takes her ‘last shot’ at a relationship.
And the language...well best to record a little sample of that, too. This is from the novella 'Gator Wrestling'.
...she had viewed puberty, virginity, chastity, kissing, touching, and the like as doomed, gleeless bony old crows with snake hair and cloven hoofs, all heaped together on the back of a wagon riding bumpy ground into a grotesque black zone where light fizzed into deeper darkness the minute it was born;...
Whew. Quite a way with imagery. Okay, that example is a bit over the top but it does give you an idea of the treasures to be found.
Leon Rooke has won several literary awards. I'll be looking for his 1981 novel [Shakespeare's Dog] which won the Governor General's Award. ( )