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Chargement... Between Here and the Yellow Sea (édition 2006)par Nic Pizzolatto (Auteur)
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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. While there is a good bit of variety to these stories, this volume is ultimately mostly a failure. The longest stories, especially, seem like failed attempts at novels. The thing that connects why these stories fail isn't that so many characters are unlikable, it is that they the author fails to ever show us who they are. They are mostly uncommunicative, like the glazier in the longest story that takes place right after WW I. Not only is the protagonist uncommunicative and unrevealed by the author, that holds true of just about every character. I came to this book after really enjoying the author's Galveston, a noir novel that did a much better job of us making us care about--or at least be interested in--its characters' fates. ( ) A collection of stories from True Detective's NP. You can see the style of True Detective build in these stories. Mostly about people on the lower end of the economic ladder they were not necessarily down and out, yet still facing the trials and vicissitudes of life. Set mostly on the gulf coast of Texas and Louisiana the sense of place was ok and sometimes his metaphor didn't work, as in trying to be literary. Still some of his insights made me ponder. A unique and good collection of stories. While I liked what I read here, most of these are simply not stories, but more drop-ins to observe a portion of a life. If you're looking for endings, look elsewhere, none of these stories offer them. They do, however showcase Pizzolatto's far ranging knowledge of truly esoteric things. My suggestion would be to not do as I did, and take one story at a time, then move to something else, then come back for the next, and so on. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Set in a variety of Southern landscapes, these startling stories excavate the ambiguous terrain of the human heart. Pizzolatto finds beauty in loneliness as his characters attempt to bridge the gulfs between themselves and others, past and present, and, sometimes, the even wider chasms that separate them from their true selves. In this stunning debut, a base-jumping, samurai park ranger parachutes off the St. Louis arch. A stained-glass artist struggles over his masterpiece for a castle in Southern Missouri and learns through great loss what his true subject will be. A schoolteacher searches for her missing son, her only clue a mysterious, paint-smeared stencil he left behind. And, in the title story, which first appeared in the Atlantic Monthly, an orphaned young man and his former high school football coach set out to kidnap the coach's daughter from Los Angeles and bring her back to East Texas. With a forceful and compassionate voice, Pizzolatto places us at the crossroads of memory and desire, longing and loss, somewhere between here and the Yellow Sea. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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