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Bezig met laden... Young Skins (2013)door Colin Barrett
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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. Impressive. ( ) Nachdem uns der Steidl Verlag schon in der Vergangenheit mit den feinen Erzählungen von Maeve Brennan und Molly McCloskey erfreut hat, veröffentlicht er nun das Debut des jungen, irischen Erzählers Colin Barrett (*1982), das prompt den ›Guardian First Book Award 2014‹ abräumte – zu Recht, denn diese in der trüben Perspektivlosigkeit einer irischen Kleinstadt angesiedelten Stories sind von galligem Humor und pointiert erzählt: Geschichten junger Zukurzgekommener & Großmäuler, Habenichtse & Kleinganoven, liebenswerter Arschlöcher & ganz normaler Loser, die auf dem Weg zum Glück meistens auf die Fresse fallen. Der Übersetzer findet den richtigen Sound für diese Prosa, die großes Lesevergnügen bereitet. Good Stuff! Both poetic and violent, these stories reminded me of "Jesus's Son," though the characters were marginally more sober. I think this was the first book I've read set in Ireland that didn't take place in Dublin, and I liked getting to know a small town without many prospects from the perspective of another country. Vivid characterisations of the claustrophobic poverty and ennui-induced violence of small town Ireland. My favourite story was The Moon. Calm with Horses had a gritty paciness to it that reminded me of how Elmore Leonard's Fire in the Hole was adapted into the excellent TV show Justified. It got me thinking about how this whole collection could be expanded into an excellent show about the less glamorous, rolling-green-hills side of Ireland that we are often exposed to, sort of like Derry Girls but with less humour and more crime. Edit: It's a movie! Set in the fictional town of Glanbeigh, Ireland these excellent stories explore lost opportunity and, often, simply loss. Drugs, crime, lost love and failure beset the characters. Speaking of them, the characters are wonderful. They fill the stories so well that several of the stories seem to stop before the characters are ready. “The Clancy Kid” and “The Moon” are examples. After they finished I found myself thinking I could follow these characters for a couple of hundred more pages. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
This magnificent collection takes us to Glanbeigh, a small town in rural Ireland - a town in which the youth have the run of the place. Boy racers speed down the back lanes; couples haunt the midnight woods; young skins huddle in the cold once The Peacock has closed its doors. Here the young live hard and wear the scars. It matters whose sister you were seen with. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time, it matters a very great deal. Colin Barrett's debut does not take us to Glanbeigh alone; there are other towns, and older characters. But each story is defined by a youth lived in a crucible of menace and desire - and each crackles with the uniform energy and force that distinguish this terrific collection. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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