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Chargement... Nouvelles du New Yorkerpar Ann Beattie
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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. More like 3.5 stars but good enough that I rounded up. The stories from the late '70s are excellent, the most successful in this collection. By the mid-80s she'd pared down her style and these stories, all of which are five or six pages, read more like vignettes lacking the emotional heft of her earlier work. From then on, the stories are hit or miss, though even when she misses it's not by that much. The writing is strong throughout. ( ) To enjoy an Ann Beattie story, you must first absorb a sort of family tree which describes the relationships among members of a non-traditional family. For example, Man A's Mother (B), is dying. A is recently divorced from C, and has taken up with D (a young college student). E is C's son from a prior marriage, who still lives with A because he gets along better with A than with C. F is D's dog, Newton, who has very specific habits and quirks of his own. Once these relationships are set in one's head, the fun can begin. There is often just as much care taken in a Beattie short story to set up a web of relationships as there is in most novels. The earlier stories, from the seventies, are often funny, almost hippie-dippie screwball comedies. Or in the alternative, set-pieces where a character must come to a complex realization of what career or relationship course he or she will pursue next. In the aftermath of the sixties, the characters in the seventies stories aren't anchored to established American notions of family, and uncouple and recouple like train cars into unusual and complex family units. Ann Beattie is the chronicler of the non-nuclear family. The eighties are a dicey period for Beattie's short fiction. These stories often feel unfinished. You'll get the same type of intro, where you're drawn into a complex web of relationships, but the ultimate point seems to be achieved when a character experiences a complex emotional state that cannot be put into words. Then the story ends abruptly. These eighties stories are often very short, but a lot of work to get through. There are two stories from the early nineties, then, starting in 2000, a series of stories from the oughts. These most recent stories are brilliant. The final three or four stories in the volume are masterpieces of short fiction. Beattie has added to her palette the issues of aging and death, while still juggling fractured family dynamics as a backdrops. These stories are funny, wise, thoughtful, and poignant. Everything you want in fiction. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Collects every Beattie story published in "The New Yorker" magazine throughout a thirty-five-year period, in an anthology that offers insight into modern American family life. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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