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Chargement... Heading Inland (1996)par Nicola Barker
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. There's a real peculiar sensibility to these stories. Nicola is effective in creating a substantial glimpse into the lives of these strange beings and, though we cannot see what happens to them ten or twenty years from that point, there's a bit of a defining sense of the moments she brings us. In general, I prefer stories that sort of knock you over the head especially at the ending (like Flannery O'Connor's short stories) These are a great deal more subtle for the most part though it does have a couple of frantic scenes (like when a man is choking) but mainly the stories (some quite short) build like an unfathomable smile on one's face with an intelligent wryness characteristic of Barker. ( ) I come to Barker's short stories, after having read her award-winning novel Wide Open. I thought that a wonderfully quirky, superbly crafted piece of fiction, and I began to collect more of her work for future reading. After reading these stories, if I didn't know I was in love before, I know now. These imaginative stories are equally quirky, some laugh out loud funny, but always includes a healthy, wry peek into the humanity of her often off-beat characters. A rebellious fetus, unhappy with the petty criminal mother he's being carried by, devises a plan to change her. A woman, dubious about the guy she's dating and about the thong she's bought for the occasion, finds it's more valuable than the guy when the car needs emergency repair. A guy sets free the live eels from a restaurant. A woman falls in love with a man whose buttons are done up wrong, though he is accused by another of using that old "three button trick." What an imagination! aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Heading Inland is a funny, broody, saucy collection of stories about the kind of people you sometimes meet but might prefer to ignore. Barker creates a wonderfully fantastical and unimaginable world: an unborn baby escapes an unsuitable mother through a secret belly-button zip; a wayward and yet enigmatic man attempts to rescue eels from an East End pie shop; a young woman discusses her fascination in other women's breasts; a boy with his inside organs back to front desperately seeks attention; and a bitter old woman becomes bent on war with a tramp. This collection confirms Nicola Barker as one of the most versatile and original writers of her generation with a brilliant unconventional imagination she creates a new world that sparkles with dark humour. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)823.914Literature English English fiction Modern Period 1901-1999 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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