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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When reading anthologies, I tend to jump around and, often, I'm left with the longer stories at the end. This benefited me as the last two stories I read (about 30 pages each) were the stand outs for me. Amy Gentry's "Stitches" has a visiting lecturer returning to the University of Texas co-op where she lived as a student and is flooded with memories of her time there and the people she met, including a free-spirited woman she connected with just before the woman disappeared. Is there more to the woman's disappearance than just the transient nature of college and co-ops? Miriam Kuznets "Saving" also revisits the past. In the late 80s, the narrator gets a job from a friend helping AIDS patients. When the friend dies, she gets caught up in trying to figure out what her job really was. As always with these books, your mileage may vary. Some stories need the backdrop of the city setting, while others just seem to have landmarks sprinkled in to meet the assignment. Overall, this was one of the stronger collections. ![]() Some of my favorites stories: Part I - Ace Atkins' "Stunts: So real I felt I was watching an actual Western. Amanda Moore's "Reflections": Quite the surprise ending. Jeff Abbott's "The Good Neighbor": Wow! What a story! I don't know what to believe, but the ending was creepy. Part II - Loved every story in this section. The best part of the entire book. Part III - Amy Gentry's "Stitches": This one's a reread for sure. A great story. A solid short story collection. ![]() The ghost of a previous Austin haunts this collection, as the city loses its former character under the weight of constant growth (like so many before it, such as Vegas, Miami, Nashville, San Francisco, etc.). To quote a character in Lee Thomas's story, "The city used to have some cool. Now it's just popular." That theme echoes across most of these stories, with varying degrees of resonance. For my money, standout stories here include "Stunts" by Ace Atkins (an aging stuntman blurs the line between his art and life), "Rush Hour" by Richard Z Santos (where everyone is a victim eventually), the grim "Charles Bronson" by Lee Thomas (no one outruns the sins of their past in this collection), and "Stitches" by Amy Gentry (a meandering whodunit journey through the unreliable characters populating days of college past). The lows may be forgettable, but the highs in this collection are enjoyable enough to make the effort of finding them worthwhile. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Featuring brand-new stories by: Gabino Iglesias, Ace Atkins, Amanda Moore, Jeff Abbott, Scott Montgomery, Richard Z. Santos, Alexandra Burt, Lee Thomas, Miriam Kuznets, Jacob Grovey, Chaitali Sen, Molly Odintz, Amy Gentry, and Andrew Hilbert. From the editors' introduction: "You've probably heard of Austin. You may have been here for South by Southwest. Your best friend may have recently relocated here from California. You might have thought about moving here yourself, then decided it wasn't worth it to live in Texas. You may have moved to Austin decades ago. You may even have been born and raised in Austin, and now you're on the outskirts of San Antonio or (God forbid) Waco because you can't afford to buy a house anywhere else. Or you may be living in a shiny new building downtown, watching the final stages of a sleepy town's transformation into modern metropolis. One thing you'll hear from almost any Austin resident: it was better when they got here . . . "As the city expands, construction never stops, struggling futilely to keep up with new demand. The running joke is that the city bird is the crane. Rents and property values keep climbing. We fear becoming Dallas . . . The writers contributing to this collection represent a kaleidoscopic view of the city--not just in where they set the stories, but in their different social, economic, and cultural perspectives." Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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![]() GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.087208Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Genre fiction Adventure fiction Mystery fictionVotoMedia:![]()
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