Amie Barrodale
Auteur de You Are Having a Good Time: Stories
Œuvres de Amie Barrodale
Prospectus (in McSweeney's 8 - EGGERS) 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 2
- Membres
- 82
- Popularité
- #220,761
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 2
- ISBN
- 2
Being impressed is such a luxury in life. Day in day out, many lives can just go on and on, feeling mostly pretty pedestrian. But I’ve been lucky to have been impressed by a number of things that have almost always rewarded me for my time spent with them. Maybe I’m just too easy, but I don’t think that’s it. I think to appreciate great writing, painting, filmmaking, relationships, anything, you have to be receptive and open to them.
With this writer’s work, there was a clarity of writing most all of the time. Once, there was this impressive closing line in a conversation that had mostly concerned itself with taking drugs and making the scene. “I hope this day brings you many pleasant moments.” It worked perfectly in that moment of the story.
The stories in this collection, were weird, very different, all over the place, amusing, emotional, and even sweetly bizarre. They were right up my street, I loved them. Now, I must go on a quest for more of Amie Barrodale's writings.… (plus d'informations)