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Chargement... Daddy: Storiespar Emma Cline
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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. Emma Cline is a local Sonoma writer so I like to read her books. She has done 2 novels and this collection of short stories. These are not happy stories but they are well written and deal with younger people in various situations. Like all short story collections there is a lot unfinished business at the end, but as an introduction to Cline this collection does work. Good stories. I often felt like I was maybe missing some important point that a more intelligent reader would pick up on, but there was plenty left over that I could figure out (or at least I thought so). A wide variety of characters and situations. Not a lot in the way of happy endings, but I guess short stories don’t usually have much in the way of endings anyway. I guess most of the characters just weren’t happy people. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"An absentee father collects his son from boarding school after a shocking act of violence. A nanny to a celebrity family hides out in Laurel Canyon in the aftermath of a tabloid scandal. A young woman sells her underwear to strangers. A notorious guest arrives at a placid, not-quite rehab in the Southwest. In ten remarkable stories, Emma Cline portrays moments when the ordinary is disturbed, when daily life buckles, revealing the perversity and violence pulsing under the surface. She explores characters navigating the edge, the limits of themselves and those around them: power dynamics in families, in relationships, the distance between their true and false selves. They want connection, but what they provoke is often closer to self-sabotage. What are the costs of one's choices? Of the moments when we act, or fail to act? These complexities are at the heart of Daddy, Emma Cline's sharp-eyed illumination of the contrary impulses that animate our inner lives"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Each one captures the moment a life declines, becomes a lesser thing. I think these stories are a remarkable achievement and all so beautifully written, and they are chasing not so much an action, or a moment, so much as a feeling of decay and diminishment that cannot be recovered from, and in that sense they succeed admirably.
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