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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Best American Short Stories 2017di Meg Wolitzer (A cura di)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. 4.6/5 ( ) I'm a sucker for this series of anthologies, and I've read more by a number of authors I first learned about in the short story series. This one got off to a slow start for me. I very much liked the opening story by T.C. Boyle ("Are We Not Men?"), though I've been sort of meh about a lot of his stuff. Then I didn't much love anything in the collection until "Ugly" by Mary Gordon, which I liked a lot. Apparently authors in the last half of the alphabet really did the trick for me in 2016, as I dog-eared these stories after that early drought: - "Ancient Rome" by Kyle McCarthy - "Last Day on Earth" by Erick Puchner - "Novostroika" by Maria Reva - "Gender Studies" by Curtis Sittenfeld - "Famous Actor" by Jess Walter None of these made me think "I must go out right away and acquire all of this author's work" but I found these worthwhile or fun. Others in the collection ranged from "pretty good" to "meh" to "well 25 minutes sure did go by while I read that." I have been reading this series since 1990. I receive it each Christmas from my wife and slowly pick my way through it until June or July. I always enjoy the diversity of topics and styles. Some of the authors are old friends from previous years, others are new. I like some of the stories better than others but seldom do I dislike one. A favorite from this year was the last story in the volume, Famous Actor by Jess Walter. A woman meets a famous actor at a party. They go to her home for a one-night stand and in her thoughts she reviews his films. Another was Richard of York Gave Battle in Vain, by Danielle Evans, about an on-again off-again wedding. A third was Hog for Sorrow by Leopoldine Core. Two young women with an uneasy friendship work in a massage parlor. Other than this volume I do not read many short stories. But if novels are coffee, short stories are espresso, short, intense and flavorful. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Presents a selection of the best works of short fiction of the past year from a variety of acclaimed sources. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)813.010806Literature English (North America) American fiction By type Short fictionClassificazione LCVotoMedia:
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