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Charity (origineel 1998; editie 1999)

door Mark Richard

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Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:With Charity, Mark Richard again secures the distinction of poet laureate of the orphaned poor, the broken, the deceived, and the unrelieved. In stylistic brilliance, he renders their conditions with grace and compassion, and redeems and transports their tragedy with wicked humor. In the much-anthologized "The Birds for Christmas," two hospitalized boys beg a night nurse to let them watch Hitchcock's classic thriller film on television, believing it will relieve their Yuletide loneliness. "Gentleman's Agreement" is a classic father-son story of fear and the violence of love. In "Memorial Day," a bayou boy learns the lessons of living from Death himself, a fortune cookie-eating phantom who claims to be "a people person." From charity ward to outrageous beach bungalow, Richard visits the overlooked corners of America, making them unforgettably visible. Richard has been rightly compared to Faulkner for his language and to...… (meer)

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Lid:	mowalsh
Titel:	Charity
Auteurs:	Mark Richard
Info:	Anchor (1999), Edition: 1st Anchor Books Ed, Paperback, 160 pages
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Charity: Short Stories door Mark Richard (1998)

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You can tell Richard is a fan of southern gothic and that he has some Faulkner and Flannery O’ Connor blood coursing through his veins. This is pitch-black, hillbilly noir, presented in eleven twisted stories, focusing mainly on outcasts and the downtrodden. There are some stand out tales to be found here but my favorite has to be “The Birds For Christmas”, which feature 2 young boys stuck in a hospital for the holidays, begging the nurses to let them watch Hitchcock’s The Birds, on Christmas Eve. Of course, these stories and Richard’s style of writing my not be for everyone, but if you don’t mind getting your hands a little dirty, give this one a shot. (

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msf59 | Mar 7, 2024 |

The one about slinging condoms full of water at corny gangsters from the balcony you can't afford is one of the best short stories I've ever read. (

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Adammmmm | Sep 10, 2019 |

If you love gritty, surreal southern writing riddled with imaginative and haunting imagery (which I do), this is the book for you. (

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cmtusa | Apr 25, 2011 |

A collection of short stories by Mark Richard, author of Fishboy, who is like a gonzo version of William Faulkner. Though Richard's style is surreal, it's dream-like quality is less about a divorce from reality than a distillation of aspects of reality we may not always be aware of. (This is not meant in a mystical sense.)

For example, the way he sketches a backwater seaside Florida town in "Fun at the Beach" beautifully captures the strange mix of ennui, relaxation and seediness that seems to hang over those places. Or the father-son relationship at the heart of "Gentleman's Agreement" which manages to be both touching and creepy. (

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Fiction. Short Stories. HTML:With Charity, Mark Richard again secures the distinction of poet laureate of the orphaned poor, the broken, the deceived, and the unrelieved. In stylistic brilliance, he renders their conditions with grace and compassion, and redeems and transports their tragedy with wicked humor.

In the much-anthologized "The Birds for Christmas," two hospitalized boys beg a night nurse to let them watch Hitchcock's classic thriller film on television, believing it will relieve their Yuletide loneliness. "Gentleman's Agreement" is a classic father-son story of fear and the violence of love. In "Memorial Day," a bayou boy learns the lessons of living from Death himself, a fortune cookie-eating phantom who claims to be "a people person." From charity ward to outrageous beach bungalow, Richard visits the overlooked corners of America, making them unforgettably visible.

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