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Bezig met laden... Keepsakes & Other Stories (editie 1999)door Jon Hassler (Auteur)
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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. I've never met a Jon Hassler book I didn't like, and I've read at least a dozen by now. This limited printing (and signed) first edition of a rather rare Hassler animal - short stories - was a most welcome Christmas gift from my sister. Hassler claimed that he wrote these stories back in the early 70s before his first novel, STAGGERFORD, came out, and they weren't publishable then "because I didn't have a name." Sadly, this is the way publishing works. Fortunately for us, twenty-some years and a dozen or more books later, he did finally see fit to publish these seven lovely little stories in this beautifully bound collector's edition: KEEPSAKES & OTHER STORIES. Having once myself been an altar boy who had to deal with aged and cranky priests - and bossy nuns - I related most easily to the two central stories here, "Keepsakes" and "Resident Priest." Hassler's talent shines through in the subtle ways in which he makes old Father Fogarty a fallible and very real human being. And the opening piece, "Chase," is as good a portrait of a small town and coming-of-age as you are apt to find anywhere in fiction, and Hassler paints it in just a few pages. You can read KEEPSAKES in a couple hours or less, but make no mistake - it's a keeper. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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From Publishers WeeklyThese seven gentle tales set in Minnesota and North Dakota and all written during the 1970s treat fans of novelist Hassler (A Green Journey; Jemmy) to the earliest fruits of his talent. Some are folksy portraits of small-town characters, while others are drier and more plot driven. Both the title story and "Resident Priest" feature crusty, 74-year-old Father Fogarty, a pastor who's leaving his parish after 23 years. In "Chief Larson," a seven-year-old Indian boy, known (rather improbably) only as "chief" on the reservation, rebels in a small but telling way against his white adoptive family. "Good News in Culver Bend" tracks two city reporters who travel to a small town and discover "the heart of Christmas." "Chase" and "Christopher, Moony, and the Birds" show how frustrated residents of small towns seek solace. The former, so brief it's nearly a prose poem, hints at Hassler's own adolescent discovery of his talent for fiction; the latter follows a lonely 50-year-old college professor as he goes on a consolatory walk with a student's awkward wife and child, watching "birds on family outings, hopping and halting on the grass." The cleverest story, "Yesterday's Garbage," follows a "garbologist" who finds the truth about a murder in a trash bin, and is then led to commit one himself. The publisher plans to issue Hassler's later short fiction in three more volumes, starting in the year 2000. (Sept.) Copyright 1999 Cahners Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 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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