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Genre/forme: | Short stories short stories Fiction Nouvelles Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Format – détails additionnels: | ebook version : |
Type d’ouvrage: | Fiction |
Type de document: | Livre |
Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs: |
Jeffrey Eugenides |
ISBN: | 9780007447886 0007447884 9780008243838 0008243832 |
Numéro OCLC: | 1005641274 |
Description: | 285 pages ; 22 cm |
Contenu: | Complainers -- Air mail -- Baster -- Early music -- Timeshare -- Find the bad guy -- The oracular vulva -- Capricious gardens -- Great experiment -- Fresh complaint. |
Responsabilité: | Jeffrey Eugenides. |
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'[An] excellent short story collection ... Eugenides deploys his pronounced gifts for comedy and characterisation at the same time as he builds an overwhelming atmosphere of suffocation' Guardian 'A very good short story writer...they are a breeze to read and Eugenides inhabits each new consciousness with easy confidence' The Times 'I adored Fresh Complaint ... beautifully written and couldn't be more topical' Observer, Books of the Year 'Eugenides has always been known as a master of prose, a sharp and precise writer whose use of language is second to none ...If you want a manageable yet unputtdownable reading experience for the week, it has to be this' Sunday Times Style Magazine 'The ten stories that make up Fresh Complaint, Eugenides first collection, boast a wide range of themes - a collage of the writer's myriad of interests and voices' TLS 'Deftly drawn sketches ... most concern the tribulations of growing older, and the infernal complications of family life as we adjust to the requirements of ever-changing circumstances' Financial Times 'The collection explores the connection between the inner and outer life, with a suave wit and equanimity that make it deceptively conversational' Literary Review 'These are poignantly told, but it's the characters who are feeling an emotional lack that make the biggest impact' Daily Mail 'Jeffrey Eugenides's beautifully written collection of short stories Fresh Complaint is not only the best thing I've read all year - it also couldn't be more 2017, featuring transgender teenagers, rape allegations on campus and much more besides' Rohan Silva, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 'There is much to enjoy and admire; notably the fact there's not a dud in the collection, an achievement that's harder to pull off that it might seem' Independent Lire la suite...
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Stories both fresh and vintage from a master writer
Fans of author Jeffrey Eugenides know that he has an uncanny ability to get inside the minds of his characters. Clearly this author does his research on everything from physics to clavichords as his fiction requires,...
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Fans of author Jeffrey Eugenides know that he has an uncanny ability to get inside the minds of his characters. Clearly this author does his research on everything from physics to clavichords as his fiction requires, but beyond that he just gets people. This short story collection showcases the range of that talent, from the point of view of a teenage girl desperate to escape an arranged marriage to a recently suicidal man reconnecting with life while picking artichokes.
I heard Mr. Eugenides read from this collection recently in Washington, DC. The story he read aloud, Complainers, was his way of sorting through the recent experience of his mother’s decline from dementia. The author explained how he wrote this story by starting with the part of his mother he knew least- her long friendship with another woman- and building the narrative around that. This story is also twist on the "book within a book" device. In the story Air Mail, Mitchell, a character who is left hanging at the end of The Marriage Plot, surfaces abroad as if continuing his journey- but the date of the story reveals that the author wrote the piece in 1996, fifteen years before The Marriage Plot was published. Dr. Luce reappears in The Oracular Vulva, a story Mr. Eugenides describes as an “outtake” from Middlesex. Overall, this was a satisfying collection of new and old stories by this Pulitzer Prize winning author.
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