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Sto caricando le informazioni... Someone to Watch Over Me: Stories By (edizione 2009)di Richard Bausch (Autore)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Often in short stories, it seems that plot is sacrificed for the sake of coming across as more "literary." Sometimes it is done well, and I can applaud the author; afterward, however, I remember nothing of the story (oh, that was the story where Sally woke up in the morning, put on her make-up and... uh...) Bausch shatters this idea of the story-less story while remaining intelligent and relevant. Here are several stories that entertain the reader but do not compromise character development or theme. Personal favorites in this collection include "Fatality," "Valor," "Two Altercations," and "Par." nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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Richard Bausch is a master of the intimate moment, of the ways we seek to make lasting connections to one another and to the world. Gew writers evoke the complexities of love as subtly, and few capture the poignancy of the sudden insight or the rhythms of ordinary conversation with such delicacy and humor. To read these twelve stories--of love and loss, of families and strangers, of small moments and enormous epiphanies--is to be reminded again of the power of short fiction to thrill and move us, to make us laugh, or cry. In these profound glimpses into the private fears, joys, and sorrows of people we know, we find revealed a whole range of human experience, told with extraordinary force, clarity, and compassion. 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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I’d like to say that every story here is exceptional, but of course even in a fine collection some will strike different readers as more exceptional than others. For me, apart from the title story, the two that stood out most were “Glass Meadow” and “Par.” The latter, in particular, has a very weak central character, deliberately so. You might suppose that might make the story collapse in upon itself. It doesn’t. Here Bausch takes his weak character through a kind of dark night of the soul (a recurring theme, perhaps). And the character emerges intact, altered surely but intact.
I might have chosen “Nobody in Hollywood”, the final story in the collection, as my favourite. But that story (exceptional though it is) is so different from those that precede it that it almost feels like it should be in a different book. Or, perhaps a better way of looking at it, it suggests that there is much more to come from this writer, all of it well worth reading. ( )