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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Some really beautiful stories, The Kite Trick and The Gods Take Off Their Shirts in particular. Still wishing I could go back in time and not read Honouring Honey though. Shudder. ( ) I found three of the twelve stories quite incredible, "Gargoyles" being one of the most imaginative and compelling contemporary stories I have ever read. I was quite certain that Richard's father was nuts, then brilliant, then cruel, then someone deserving sympathy. Not even in a novel have I gone through such a variety of strong (and what I thought to be certain) feelings for a single character. I found the middle section of the collection a bit weaker and less polished, but the last few stories were good. Overall, a recommended reading. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Here is the best of Bill Gaston's stories since the publication of his Giller Prize nominated collection, Mount Appetite (2002). In this extraordinary work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle -- the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. In Gaston's marvellous, riotous, Rabelaisian world, Gargoyles are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and contortions to which we human beings subject ourselves. Indeed, as Gaston wrote each story, he sketched out a distinct gargoyle to look down over it. For that reason, each story in this collection has a strange and unique guardian spirit whose sometimes benevolent, and sometimes malevolent, presence informs the characters and their actions. Gargoyles shows one of our best writers at the top of his form. 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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