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Sto caricando le informazioni... The temptation of Jack Orkney and other stories (1978)di Doris Lessing
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. There is a huge variety among the thirteen stories in this 1972 collection. Many have to do with aging, maturation, and/or death, and there is often a high degree of psychological acuity in the telling. Two stories touch on the theater and its culture, one is a sfnal parable in which space aliens try to warn San Franciscans about an impending cataclysm, another is a set of espionage vignettes, and a couple are centered on public parks. Their central characters are of diverse ages, classes, races, and genders. Really, about the only thing that ties all of these stories together is a consistently high quality of prose, and a leisured sort of storytelling pace. Many, perhaps most, end without any sense of finality or significant closure. I don't often read "literary" short stories of this kind, but I'm glad to have read these. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the second volume of her collected short stories. Lessing is unrivalled in her ability to capture the complexities of relationships, and the stories in this wonderful collection have lost none of their original power. Two marriages, both middle class, liberal and 'rather literary', share a shocking flaw, a secret 'cancer'. A young, beautiful woman from a working-class family is courted by a very eligible, very upmarket man. An ageing actress falls in love for the first time but can only express her feelings through her stage performances because her happily married lover is unobtainable. A dedicated, lifelong rationalist is tempted, after the death of his father, by the comforts of religious belief. In this magnificent collection of stories, which spans four decades, Lessing's unique gift for observation, her wit, her compassion and remarkable ability to illuminate human life are all remarkably displayed. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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