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Chargement... The Devil You Knowpar Jenn Farrell
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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. This is a collection of stories about women who make bad choices. The writing is raw and paints very vivid pictures of situations ranging from the death of a parent to teen violence to dangerous sexual relationships. Jenn Farrell has an unflinching eye as she draws her characters so well that we are able to come to know them deeply in a very few pages. ( ) The Devil You Know is full of short stories about the dark side of life a lot of readers would rather forget. The women use poor judgment, drink too much and have sex with the wrong people. Usually, these are not my favourite themes in fiction. However, Farrell tells these stories with such finesse that I was captivated throughout. Funny, very real and deliciously disturbing . . . all of these attributes are wrapped up in this slim collection.
The characters might seem like extremes when looked at as a shopping-list microcosm of humanity, but digging deeper into their wounds reveals a great deal more than the surface strange would have you believe. It’s then that the tenuous connective tissue becomes something stronger and more resilient, when you realize that you know these people, or you have been one of these people—or you are one of these people. Farrell effectively forges her image as a bad-ass version of Alice Munro. Some readers will find The Devil You Know too distasteful with its fuzzy morality and unflinching look at life. I admit that at times I wondered how Farrell's twisted mind worked. If, on the other hand, you appreciate a writer who is a sharp observer and gets the details right, over and over again, you too might be riveted by The Devil You Know. Farrell spoiled me for other writing that isn't as real. Her gift of verisimilitude is so exact that more than once I caught myself thinking: "there but for the grace of god go I." Prix et récompenses
'The Devil You Know' is the follow-up volume to Farrell's acclaimed debut collection, 'Sugar Bush & Other Stories'. The stories in 'The Devil You Know' deal with the familiar, yet ever-engrossing, territories of sex, love, work, birth, and death. Life's defining moments are explored through the eyes of female characters, from children to teens to adults. Family relationships, particularly between mothers and daughters, are a central theme of this collection. All families have secretsand things unspoken, but eventually these dark truths come to light, often in surprising and transformative ways."Farrell effectively forges her image as a bad-ass version of Alice Munro. Like Munro, she's a short story writer who focuses on the lives of girls and women in small-town Canada, but Farrell's characters get high on mushrooms and dabble in BDSM." - The Georgia StraightThere are points in Jenn Farrell's amazing collection that I felt like I was listening in on the most intimate conversations of strangers-I was rapt with attention, but almost guilty for being privy to such intimacy. 'The Devil You Know' treads familiar territory-small town ennui, adolescent love, grief and self-destruction-but does it with such emotional acuity that it doesn't feel familiar at all, it feels extraordinary. - Catherine Hanrahan author of 'Lost Girls and Love Hotels' Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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