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Chargement... The Big Impossible: Novellas Storiespar Edward J. Delaney
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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. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This was a good selection of short stories. I liked Part 2 The House of Sully the best. Over all not a bad read. ( )Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. I loved this collection of stories from Edward J. Delaney. There are five short stories and two novellas, all of them engrossing. My favorite was the novella "House of Sully" which felt very familiar to me. I am three years younger than the protagonist, and remembered the events that Delaney touched on very clearly. One thing puzzles me; he makes reference to a "wept" nail. I have consulted five online dictionaries and my enormous, unabridged Mirriam-Webster, and can find nothing that could possibly apply to a nail. All of the stories in this volume are memorable and well-written; each of them are worth the reader's time. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. The Big Impossible is an eclectic mix of stories and perspectives, from a bullied high school student who turns to extreme violence to a man who uses Google Street View to revisit his past lives. The book is divided into three sections: part one contains five short stories; part two, the novella "House of Sully"; and part three, "The Big Impossible." Standouts in the collection include "Clean," "My Name is Percy Atkins," and both novellas. I particularly enjoyed "House of Sully," which perfectly captures the zeitgeist of New England in the late 1960's, during the political turmoil following the Kennedy assassinations, the uncertainty of the Vietnam War, the nascent of the second feminist wave, and the changing demographics of urban neighborhoods. Edward J. Delaney has such a talent for writing that his stories more often than not come across as a natural dialogue between the narrator and the reader. Take for example this excerpt:"I looked in a veined mirror and sized it all up: rough-cut hair, windburned red face, the T-shirt and the grimy jeans and beaten leather jacket. I wasn't young, but I wasn't too old to not think I could still change. That mattered: the point in your life where the old part is dead and fallen away, and the new part isn't anything yet. You just are. You look in that cracked glass and see a face that can't quite start all over, can't erase the invested years, can't bargain for many more..." In just a few sentences, Delaney's prose skillfully conveys the emotional nuances of trying to start over and find oneself. The way his stories speak to the human condition lend Delaney's works a precious verisimilitude. Overall, I found The Big Impossible to be a profound and powerful collection of novellas and short stories. Many thanks to Turtle Point Press for sending me a finished copy of the book for my honest review. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"Short fiction exploring guilt and redemption, aspiration and failure, and the stubbornness of modest hopes. The usual mileposts are fading, and choice is in the context of institutions and assumptions that are no longer holding steady. Edward J. Delaney is author of the novels 'Follow the Sun,' 'Broken Irish,' and 'Warp & Weft'"-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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