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Chargement... Homesickness (édition 2022)par Colin Barrett (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreHomesickness par Colin Barrett
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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. Not a clunker in the bunch. ( ) I can tell that this book is incredibly skillfully written and I feel impressed on a logical level - he's great at taking a short snapshot of lives and writing so that you feel you see a huge part of their past and future without him needing to spell it out - yet somehow it just didn't do it for me for no particular reason. Probably just my mood I guess. It's clearly a very good collection of stories just. Didn't work as well as I wanted for me. Colin Barrett takes his time telling a story. There’s no rush, no pressure, no showy technique. Just a darn good story that says what it has to and then shuts down. Now some of these you want to go on longer, some feel like the first chapters of novels. The characters are people you could settle in with, they could carry a longer tale. The first and last, A Shooting in Rathreedane, and The 10, both have that feel. And actually a couple of others now that I think about it. Most of the characters are good people doing the best they can under the circumstances given them. Most of the stories are set in Ireland, one in Canada. There’s humor inherent in them, often black humor. In The Alps, a young man hides from his brothers in a pub after he kills their mother’s cat with a sword, or a katana as he informs the patrons. He brings the katana with him. In another, a poet makes his real living creating pornographic art to his client’s specifications. This is a fine collection. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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"When Colin Barrett's debut Young Skins was published, it swept up several major literary awards, and, in both its linguistic originality and sharply drawn portraits of working-class Ireland, earned Barrett comparisons to Faulkner, Hardy, and Musil. Now, in a blistering follow-up collection, Barrett brings together eight character-driven stories, each showcasing his inimitably observant eye and darkly funny style. A quiet night in a local pub is shattered by the arrival of a sword wielding fugitive; a funeral party teeters on the edge of this world and the next, as ghosts simply won't lay in wake; a shooting sees a veteran policewoman confront the banality of her own existence; and an aspiring writer grapples with his father's cancer diagnosis and in his despair wreaks havoc on his mentor's life. The second piece of fiction from a "lyrical and tough and smart" (Anne Enright) voice in contemporary Irish literature, Homesickness marks Colin Barrett out as our most brilliantly original and captivating storyteller."-- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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