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Bezig met laden... Signs of Passingdoor Owen Thomas
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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. Deze bespreking was geschreven voorLibraryThing lid Weggevers. From Harlan, the homeless bus driver who was too honest for his own good, to the bored wife who found imaginative gratification in stalking strangers, the characters' personalities in this book are well-defined and dramatic without seeming far-fetched. There were several stories in this book and I was only bored by one. I would recommend this book to friends. Entertaining read! Deze bespreking was geschreven voorLibraryThing lid Weggevers. I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. I'm giving it 5 stars and 2 thumbs up! This book is about separate but connected stories - and it's the best thing I've read in awhile! I look forward to seeing more from him. Deze bespreking was geschreven voorLibraryThing lid Weggevers. I officially love Owen Thomas' books. I loved The Lion Trees and now I love Signs of Passing. Some of the characters I liked and some not so much. There are many books I replace on the shelf thinking, "This I will reread." I rarely do so, but Signs of Passing I will reread as I feel I have not yet connected all the dots in these dark stories. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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What convinces us that we have been wrong about the world? When do we know that the usual ways are no longer working; that it is time to set down one life and pick up another? Winner of the Pacific Book Award for short fiction, Signs of Passing presents ten stories told from the nearside of epiphany, less a time or place than a state of mind in which one can hear the voice calling from beyond the veil of conscious understanding and singing of how life can be better: - A young boy, abandoned by divorce, discovers something inexplicable happening in the two-dimensional world of Winchester County, his favorite TV western; - A waitress at a bar called The Office, so alienated from the tedium of her own existence she no longer feels any fear walking home at night in the dark when perhaps she should; - A crime detective novelist so beset by writer's block that he attends the funerals of strangers in hopes of gleaning some advice from the dead, unaware that he is being followed; - A young and secretly talented widow struck by the revelation that her late husband was not the man she thought she had married; - A homeless, rural bus driver forced to confront the possibility that the dreams keeping him alive have been too small for him and that it is better to embrace peril in risking everything for a better life than to live safely in a prison of the familiar; - A squared-away child psychiatrist forced to confront the reality that one of his immature patients and an erotic dancer know more than he does about the fraud of his own existence and the excruciating secret to happiness; - An assistant veterinarian for a small-town zoo who, unbeknownst to her undeniably perfect husband, has taken to following random strangers around the city as a way of escaping both her guilt and her contentment; - A young photojournalist surrendering herself to the control of a brutish and degenerate winemaker, all to exorcise a past that will not let her go and that holds all love at bay; - A shopping mall employee whose enmity for a local television meteorologist is rewarded with an unlikely opportunity for revenge; and - An entertainment media mogul, stricken with sudden news of cancer as he battles in court to retain the rights to remake an old television western about a better life in Winchester County. A collection of separate stories about interconnected characters, Signs of Passing is devoted to the experience of waking up-of recognizing the better life in all of its unlikely disguises-and then summoning the courage to leave everything else behind, and to give chase before it's too late. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Excellent work, I look forward to reading more books by Mr. Thomas!
*I was given a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review ( )