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Bezig met laden... The High Placesdoor Fiona McFarlane
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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. McFarlane is an Australian author with a wide range of ability to write about the past and the present and to put forth some moral conundrums in a short story that will make you examine your own choices in those situations. Hopefully action with less ambiguity, but that's what escapist about these stories. They often involve someone leaving at a crucial moment (Exotic Animal Medicine leaves the scene of a crime; Violet, Violet leaves stealthily through the night with someone else's possession, but with a detailed drawing left behind; Rose Bay has a young woman leaving behind her family due to a secret that would hurt them all) They often also have an element of spirituality (Good News for Modern Man, The High Places) and a tenuous grip on reality (Man and Bird, The Movie People). Enjoyable for the open-ended, thought-provoking rumination they promote. Would be great for discussion. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"What a terrible thing at a time like this: to own a house, and the trees around it. Janet sat rigid in her seat. The plane lifted from the city and her house fell away, consumed by the other houses. Janet worried about her own particular garden and her emptied refrigerator and her lamps that had been timed to come on at six.So begins "Mycenae," a story in The High Places, Fiona McFarlane's first story collection. Her stories skip across continents, eras, and genres to chart the borderlands of emotional life. In "Mycenae," she describes a middle-aged couple's disastrous vacation with old friends. In "Good News for Modern Man," a scientist lives on a small island with only a colossal squid and the ghost of Charles Darwin for company. And in the title story, an Australian farmer turns to Old Testament methods to relieve a fatal drought. Each story explores what Flannery O'Connor called "mystery and manners." The collection dissects the feelings--longing, contempt, love, fear--that animate our existence and hints at a reality beyond the smallness of our lives.Salon's Laura Miller called McFarlane's The Night Guest "a novel of uncanny emotional penetration. How could anyone so young portray so persuasively what it feels like to look back on a lot more life than you can see in front of you?" The High Places is further evidence of McFarlane's preternatural talent, a debut collection that reads like the selected works of a literary great"--
"A debut short-story collection from the author of The Night Guest"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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-Exotic Animal Medicine
-Art Appreciation
-Mycenae
-Man and Bird
-Unnecessary Gifts
-Those Americans Falling from the Sky
-Rose Bay
-Violet, Violet
-The Movie People
-Cara Mia
-Buttony
-Good News for Modern Man
-The High Places