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Sto caricando le informazioni... Phone Calls From the Deaddi Wendy Brenner
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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 was a collection of 11 short stories. Overall, they were fairly good, but at times it became fairly confusing as to what was happening. Also, stories would end abruptly, and it was hard to see if there was something to be learned from them or if they were just written for entertainment. The first few stories were okay, but the last three stories were very good. They were "Mr. Meek," "Awareness," and "Remnants of Earl." ( ) This was a collection of 11 short stories. Overall, they were fairly good, but at times it became fairly confusing as to what was happening. Also, stories would end abruptly, and it was hard to see if there was something to be learned from them or if they were just written for entertainment. The first few stories were okay, but the last three stories were very good. They were "Mr. Meek," "Awareness," and "Remnants of Earl." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
A bodybuilder is charged with superhuman energy and an ability to make lightbulbs explode. A grieving father tries to communicate with his dead son via a tape recorder. A high school girl claims to have her uncle's nipple in an envelope. A thirtysomething woman is fired from her dead-end job at Manpower and comes to understand her life through the experience of a German shepherd. Four ornery squirrels, tied together by their tails, struggle to maintain their sanity. Ten stories in all, the highly original PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD pulses with meaning. Alive and odd and needy, the characters in Wendy Brenner's stories grapple with the extraordinary and the ordinary, searching for answers from unlikely sources, striving to connect with each other and with something greater than themselves. Amidst a world of technological, natural, and possibly supernatural phenomena, they struggle with the most human of losses and longings. Named one of twenty-five fiction writers to watch by Writer's Digest (along with Allegra Goodman, Jhumpa Lahiri, and William Gay), Brenner has been paving a new path through American fiction ever since her first collection, Large Animals in Everyday Life. Publishers Weekly, in a starred review, described that collection as "chock-full of pitch-perfect dialogue and dead-on descriptions . . . intoxicatingly original." In PHONE CALLS FROM THE DEAD, the stories do just that, and then go a step farther. Whether it moves you to uncontrollable laughter or to tears, you won't soon forget Wendy Brenner's work. 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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