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Bezig met laden... Bark: Stories (2014)door Lorrie Moore
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. 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. " PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
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HTML: "Fifty years from now, it may well turn out that the work of very few American writers has as much to say about what it means to be alive in our time as that of Lorrie Moore" (Harper's). A literary event—a new collection of stories by one of America's most beloved and admired short story writers, her first collection in fifteen years. In these eight masterful stories, Lorrie Moore, in a perfect blend of craft and bewitched spirit, 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 hilarity 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 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 unraveling of two once-hopeful musicians who neither held fast to their dreams nor struck out along other paths as Moore deftly depicts the intricacies of dead ends and the workings of regret. 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 Lorrie Moore–land. .Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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