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Bezig met laden... We Live in Water: stories (2013)door Jess Walter
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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.   ) ben_r47 | Feb 22, 2024 |  I now feel like I know what it's like to be a strung out poor (and possibly crazy) guy in a bad relationship. Yay! (  ) hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |  ) Kiramke | Jun 27, 2023 | ) misterysun | Feb 27, 2023 | Oren Dressens, in the title story, takes his little boy to a showdown with a hood whom he has both stolen from and cuckolded. Years later the son returns to the scene to try to discover what happened to his father. In “Helpless Little Things,” a grifter uses innocent-looking homeless young people to beg for money for Greenpeace, which then goes into his own pocket. Walter explores a nightmarish future in “Don't Eat Cat.” In “The New Frontier,” one of the best stories in the collection, two men go to Las Vegas to rescue the stepsister of one of them from a life of prostitution. The smarter one narrates the story, which turns out to be as hilarious as it is poignant. Another excellent tale, “Thief,” tells of a father who knows one of his three kids is stealing coins from the family's vacation fund, kept in a big jar. But which one? He sets a trap to try to discover the answer. “Anything Helps” is the story of a panhandler with the least likely reason for begging you can imagine. Some of the 13 stories in the book don't hit the mark, but most of them do. (  ) hardlyhardy | Feb 14, 2022 |
 Fortunately, Walter is a bighearted man who excels at writing about other bighearted, if broken, men. That generosity of spirit, coupled with Walter’s seeming inability to look away from the messy bits, elevates these stories from dirges to symphonies. For Walter, we do live in water, an immense soup of muddled humanity sloshing around and spilling over, soaking us all. Everything is a reflection of everything else, with no such thing as disconnection. Or isolation. Or edges. Or solid ground.  Not every writer thinks of his stories as troubled offspring, but in Mr. Walter’s case it’s a fair description. ...Nobody in this collection’s 13 pieces can be described as headed for anything but trouble. ...The short form has allowed Mr. Walter to assemble his most bleakly funny, hard-edge book in years. Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Harper Perennial Olive Editions (2022 Olive)
"We Live in Water, the first collection of short fiction from New York Times bestselling author Jess Walter, is a suite of diverse, often comic stories about personal struggle and diminished dreams, all of them marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made him one of our most talked-about writers. In 'Thief,' a blue-collar worker turns unlikely detective to find out which of his kids is stealing from the family vacation fund. In 'We Live in Water,' a lawyer returns to a corrupt North Idaho town to find the father who disappeared thirty years earlier. In 'Anything Helps,' a homeless man has to 'go to cardboard' to raise enough money to buy his son the new Harry Potter book. In 'Virgo,' a local newspaper editor tries to get back at his superstitious ex-girlfriend by screwing with her horoscope. And the collection's final story transforms slyly from a portrait of Walter's hometown into a moving contemplation of our times"--P. [iv] of cover. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.91)
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