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Bezig met laden... Red Wolf, Red Wolf: Stories (1987)door W. P. Kinsella
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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. assorted short stories by the author of Shoeless Joe who is also a fan of Flannery O'Connor - I liked some a lot, and others meant nothing to me and were promptly forgotten (you'd probably like some and not like others, but perhaps the roster would line up entirely differently :) ( ) I always say I don't really care for short stories but then I run across a master in the art of short fiction, like Alice Munro, and I say that they are so good they are the exception to my general rule. Now I am going to have to add W. P. Kinsella to that list. Each one of the stories in this collection was a gem. The title story is a tribute to Flannery O'Connor. In his foreword Kinsella calls O'Connor "probably the best short fiction writer the United States has ever produced." I have never read anything by O'Connor but after that praise I can tell I am going to have to do so. The title comes from the disease that O'Connor suffered from most of her life, lupus. Lupus is a disease with a myriad of symptoms but one of them is that people get red splotches on their skin hence the red in the title. Lupus means wolf in Latin;ergo the wolf. The last story also has a reference to O'Connor. In the foreword Kinsella says that "Mother Tucker's Yellow Duck" is his favourite in the collection and I can see that. It is one of the few stories that is actually set in Canada so it seems a little more real than the others. Of course, Kinsella is known as a baseball writer and there are some baseball references in some of the stories. In "Billy in Trinidad" Billy the Kid takes part in a baseball game in Trinidad, Colorado. I found a picture online of Billy playing croquet but I couldn't find anything about him playing baseball. Maybe it is just another example of Kinsella imagining an interesting baseball scenario. Really well written stories from a master that I haven't explored for a long time. Glad I did. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This collection of short stories includes Evangeline's Mother, in which Henry Vold must cope with, and is changed by, his teenaged daughter's sexually precocious friend; and Elvis Bound, in which the singer disrupts the love life of a ballplayer and his wife. 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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