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Sto caricando le informazioni... Staff Picks: Stories (Yellow Shoe Fiction)di George Singleton
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is a great collection of short stories, expertly written. Having said that, I found them missing a lot of the humor from his previous collections and also these stories didn't contain those spots that were so good you had to read them to someone else. I don't want to say this is a more mature collection of short stories, but I don't know any other way to state it. The last story, "Everything's Wild", is a heart breaking story, unlike anything I have read from Singleton in the past. ( ) George Singleton's stories are sublime, ridiculous, funny and serious, usually all at once. A lost father takes his son on a tour to meet women who could have been his mother. A couple prank obnoxious frat boys at a lake house. A woman meets a man who might be of her dreams at a contest to see who can keep a hand on an RV the longest. Racists, preachers, his own hapless, hard-luck protagonists all get their due, but gently. Old age and death are creeping into Singleton's stories now, or maybe they were always there. He leavens the sadness of life with humor. It's part of the fabric of his writing, except for the last story, Everything's Wild, in which a widower appears to be sliding into dementia due to grief, but there's more to it. Singleton plays it straight in that one, while acknowledging that most of us try to do our best, but don't always pull it off. George Singleton is a well-established Southern author who publishes short stories in small presses. Each story in Staff Picks is firmly rooted in the rural communities of the Carolina upstate, with occasional mentions of "Steepleburg," a pretty obvious stand-in for Spartanburg. With the exception of the title story, each story is narrated by a middle-aged or older white man, and most of them are easy-going guys who feel some regret for the way things have turned out. The two most memorable stories were Staff Picks, in which a woman is determined to win a radio endurance contest for an RV, and Eclipse, in which a middle-aged recovering addict works a catering job at a community center named for a lynching victim. Things become surreal, although the reader is never quite certain how reliable a narrator the story has. All in all, this is a solid collection of stories that reflect the location in which they are set. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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It's Father's Day 1972 and a young boy's dad takes him to visit a string of unimpressive ex-girlfriends that could have been his mother; the unconventional detective work of a koan-speaking, Kung Fu-loving uncle solves a case of arson during a pancake breakfast; and a former geology professor, recovering from addiction, finds himself sharing a taxicab with specters from a Jim Crow-era lynching. Set in and around the fictional town of Steepleburg, South Carolina, the loosely tied stories in George Singleton's Staff Picks place sympathetic, oddball characters in absurd, borderline surreal situations that slowly reveal the angst of southern history with humor and bite. In the tradition of Donald Barthelme, T. C. Boyle, Flannery O'Connor, and Raymond Carver, Singleton creates lingering, darkly comedic tales by drawing from those places where familiarity and alienation coexist. A remarkable and distinct effort from an acclaimed chronicler of the South, Staff Picks reaffirms Singleton's gift for crafting short story collections that both deliver individual gems and shine as a whole. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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