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Chargement... A Dove of the East: And Other Stories (1975)par Mark Helprin
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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. Short stories (which I generally don't like to read) by a writer I like. Twenty short stories by Mark Helprin. Although reviews of the stories seem to find a theme, I didn't find one. Instead, I was caught up in the beauty of the writing, the descriptive phrases one of Helprin's greatest talents. If you want your stories' endings tied up neat and proper, these stories are not for you. They leave so much to think about that I had to put the book aside after each story. I'm a great fan of Helprin's longer novels, and I'm pleased to find that his short stories have the same visual essence. More elves disguised as humans, and Rivendell disguised as Maine. I like that Helprin inspires us to see the transcendence of the world -- to see it as transcendently lovely, transcendently cruel, as a living artifact of the creator's might and incomprehensibility. That said, despite much, much beauty, I found myself wanting to stop reading. Levi learned that soft lesson, and it became the steel of his life 4.7.08 aucune critique | ajouter une critique
The twenty stories here, many of which first appeared in The New Yorker and have since been anthologized throughout the world, are strikingly beautiful essays on enduring and universal questions: In Rome, in the hour of his death, and American priest must choose between his Church and his God. An Israeli scout risks the safety and respect of his comrades in an act of transfiguring gentleness and charity. In a hot, dirty typewriter ribbon factory in the Bronx, a young man finds love. A Dutch child in a Canadian orphanage carries in her heart, her love for her parents and the pain of war. A soldier is overpowered by his days of burying the dead. A Sicilian widow meditates on the end of her family line. These twenty stories are strikingly beautiful pieces on enduring, universal questions by a writer the San Francisco Review of Books calls "a master crafter of the short story." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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