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Bezig met laden... Unexpected Weather Eventsdoor Erin Pringle
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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. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Got this book thru LT's Early Review program for an honest review. This is a collection of short stories, where the characters are dealing with life, generally in the winter and the crap that it throws at them. Whether it is death, a cancer diagnosis, war. They all were pretty good reads, with the exception of the last one, that I really didn't connect with. I'd recommend this, if you're looking for a decent collection of stories. ( )Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. There's a heaviness to all the stories in this collection, but some of them are more forgiving than others. In some, even where the stories are dark, light leaks through at the seams. Erin Pringle wonderfully serves up these tales of families and former families, pasts, presents, futures that are bleak or hopeful. Far from a beach read, but if you get into the right frame of mind, or are prepared to be in the wrong frame of mind, it's worth the time to thread through this collection. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. This is a collection of short stories that captures the depth of emotions that accompanies deeply personal tragedies and events in people’s lives. Deaths of family members figure prominently in these haunting stories, as do the consequences of their deaths. There is a significant poignancy to the love and support of family members following a tragedy.Thank you to LibraryThing and the publisher for this copy. Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten. Erin Pringle is talented. She often writes in a series of vignettes, sometimes sequential, sometimes from different times or places, but always related in ways that drive the story forward. Each scene is rich in detail, sparse with words, full of meanings, meanings which the reader, me at least, may grasp immediately, or later, or maybe not completely even at the end. But that’s good. Stories, like poems, can make us feel or help us understand, and sometimes both. Some of these eight stories are told by children, which makes them raw, maybe not easy to read but worth the reading. Others are about adults remembering both childhood and later years. They were easier for me to read. This is not the sort of book I’d want to read before bed. Each story is about some sort of tragedy, as the description and quotes about the book warn, but there is some joy in every one. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A new collection from award winning author, Erin Pringle. With Midwestern practicality and deft lyricism, award-winning author Erin Pringle has constructed UNEXPECTED WEATHER EVENTS, a collection of stories following irrepressible characters facing tough situations--cancer, mental illness, death. Set against winter landscapes and fading small towns, this collection illuminates how joy can flicker within unpredictable tragedy. "Erin Pringle is my favorite living author. This breathtaking new collection more than solidifies that opinion. Her writing is soul-rich with wonder and terror, tapping into a child's dream-like experience of family, change, and death. These are not only stories; each piece is a spell swirling with grief, love, and the bitter-strong beauty of being alive."--Owen Egerton, author of Hollow and How Best To Avoid Dying "Erin Pringle has done it again. In this clutch of grimly gorgeous stories, resilient characters navigate perilous conditions and deteriorating landscapes in their efforts to transcend, or at least come to terms with, the dicey, mysterious predicaments of their strangely familiar lives. The greatest graces afforded these pilgrims, not to mention us readers, are the sentences, coldly true and perfectly pitched, that pump their blood and afford them breath. Erin Pringle is not a minimalist, nor is she a language-for-language's-sake lyricist, but her prose, its sound and its sense, is the heart of the book."--Tom Noyes, author of The Substance Of Things Hoped For "In Erin Pringle's breathtaking story collection UNEXPECTED WEATHER EVENTS ghosts arrive on wintry nights, the sky bleeds red snow, a hole opens up between heaven and hell, and characters learn to grieve, to laugh, to love, even as the harrowing world around them shudders and quakes with loss. The themes and tone in these pages--at turns deadpan and compassionate, always wise and complex--converse beautifully with the fiction of Miriam Toews and Agota Kristof. This book reminded me: We are not alone in our sorrow; there are always new ways--even in a petrifying darkness--to see and to love." --Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra Fiction. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
Deelnemer aan LibraryThing Vroege RecensentenErin Pringle's boek Unexpected Weather Events was beschikbaar via LibraryThing Early Reviewers. Auteur ChatErin Pringle heeft van Oct 17, 2009 tot Oct 31, 2009 gechat met LibraryThing leden. Lees de chat. Actuele discussiesGeen
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