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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Short collection of autobiographical sketches. The last couple are very good. ( ) Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I've only read a couple stories so far, but the title story "My Father's Guitar" is amazing! I'm considering getting the Kindle version just so I can keep it with me. Excellent book! Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. Read a couple of the essays, skimmed through one or two more. They weren't terrible, the writing wasn't bad, but the stories just didn't keep my interest, so I gave up. Too many other books to read. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. I love these short stories. The authors prospective, and wording made me smile each time. In addition, the stories are short enough that you can read them on the go. Questa recensione è stata scritta per Recensori in anteprima di LibraryThing. A fun and sometimes quite thought-provoking read. Memory is a zephyr, and this collection of odd and often unsubstantiated recollections proves that. I've had similar experiences, where conversations I've had get denied later - "I never said any such thing!" and throw my world for a loop.Some of the essays are very funny. Loved the one about turning the tables on telemarketers and the bizarre conversations that ensued. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Often comic, sometimes tender, profoundly truthful, the pleasure in these nonfiction pieces by award-winning novelist Joseph Skibell is discovering along with the author that catastrophes, fantasies, and delusions are what give sweetness and shape to our lives. "As a writer," Skibell has said, "I feel about life the way the people of the Plains felt about the buffalo: I want to use every part of it." In My Father's Guitar and Other Imaginary Things, his first nonfiction work, he mines the events of his own life to create a captivating collection of personal essays, a suite of intimate stories that blurs the line between funny and poignant, and between the imaginary and the real. Often improbable, these stories are 100 percent true. Skibell misremembers the guitar his father promised him; together, he and a telemarketer dream of a better world; a major work of Holocaust art turns out to have been painted by his cousin. Woven together, the stories paint a complex portrait of a man and his family: a businessman father and an artistic son and the difficult love between them; complicated uncles, cousins, and sisters; a haunted house; and--of course--an imaginary guitar. Skibell's novels have been praised as "startlingly original" (the Washington Post), "magical" (the New Yorker), and the work of "a gifted, committed imagination" (the New York Times). With his distinctive style, he has been referred to as "the bastard love child of Mark Twain, I. B. Singer, and Wes Anderson, left on a doorstep in Lubbock, Texas." 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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