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Sto caricando le informazioni... Here Until August (2019)di Josephine Rowe
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Fiction.
Literature.
Short Stories.
HTML: "Here Until August tracks the shimmer of precarious moments and transient moods with devastating precision. In their steady excavation of intimacy, these spacious stories bring Alice Munro to mind. I underlined sentence after sentence as I read: for their beauty, their clarity, and their wisdom. Josephine Rowe is a breathtakingly good writer, and this is a marvelous book." â??Michelle de Kretser The stories in Here Until August follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are traveling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds. These are people who move with the seasons. We meet them negotiating reluctant or cowardly departures, navigating uncertain returns, or biding the disquieting calm that so often precedes moments of decisive action. In one story, an agoraphobic French émigré compulsively watches disturbing footage from the other side of the world as she attempts to keep a dog named Chavez out of trouble. In another, a young couple weather the interiority of a Montreal winter, more attuned to the illicit goings-on of their neighbors than to their own hazy, unfolding futures. Other stories play out against the fictional counterparts of iconic Australian and American locales, places that are recognizable but set just beyond the brink of familiarity: flooded townships and distant islands, sunlit woodlands or paths made bright by ice, places of unpredictable access and spaces scrubbed from maps. From the Catskills to New South Wales, from the remote and abandoned island outports of Newfoundland to the sprawl of a North American metropolis, these transformative stories show us how the places where we choose to live our lives can just as easily turn inward as outwar Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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 Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni...GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)823.92Literature English English fiction Modern Period 2000-Classificazione LCVotoMedia: (4.25)
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The first story 'Glisk' begins with a family wading through ocean waters as if trying to escape a bushfire, but they turn out to be venturing out to observe a unique episode in the marine ecosystem off the coast of WA. The hero of this venture is the eight-year-old narrator's adopted brother Fynn:
Well, the raft does fall apart, but Fynn keeps his promise...
They all arrive safe and sound though wetter than they'd intended. But the twist in this tale is that, years later, the admirable Fynn has to leave town after causing a tragedy, and it's a town that has not forgotten when he returns many years afterwards. But the main interest in this story is the narrator's ambivalent attitude to the relationship he has with Fynn...
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