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Chargement... Who Do You Love: Storiespar Jean Thompson
   Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  KarlBunker | Mar 30, 2014 |    ) thatotter | Feb 4, 2014 | I first heard of Thompson from, of all people, David Sedaris. He mentioned how much he loved her work at a reading he did in Duluth. But it wasn’t until I read her Largehearted Boy Book Notes essay that I really paid attention. Glory be! Her collection Throw Like a Girl was one of my favorite books last year. http://www.iwilldare.com/2008/09/06/something-like-prayer-but-that-wouldnt-embar... jodiwilldare | Sep 29, 2008 | aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Jean Thompson is a short-fiction writer of rare integrity and insight into the bruised lives of Americans, the emotional complexities of love, and the resiliency of the human spirit. The fifteen stories in this splendid collection-three never before published-illuminate real and imagined human needs and, in doing so, tell us something new about ourselves. A young woman has an epiphany, walking along the snow-drifted shoulder of a monotonous highway in the Midwest. The quiet rhythm of a suburban neighborhood is disrupted by peculiar activity at the local firehouse. A city cop on the graveyard shift internalizes the desperation of those he encounters night after night. And the formidable vastness of the Pacific Ocean humbles an urban junkie and his girlfriend in search of salvation. In precise and unsparing prose, Thompson dispels the comfort of taking life-and love-for granted, begging the very question of identity. Who are you? Who do you love? Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Among Thompson's many qualities as a writer is her versatility; her ability to portray a wide variety of characters. From a teenaged girl to an elderly man to a middle aged woman to a six-year-old boy, Thompson can take us into the minds of all of them and make us believe completely in the reality in what goes on there. Another thing that stands out in her writing is the subtlety and intelligence with which she handles narrative flow -- the "this happened and then this happened" of a story. A personal favorite of mine are the techniques she uses in a couple of stories to slyly and obliquely portray the moment when a relationship becomes sexual.
And I could go on and on about Thompson's other skills. The deft plotting, the soft-spoken intensity of her stories, the wisdom of her insights about people and how they react to life.
It's a mark of the richness of these stories that, having just finished the book, I'm tempted to turn back to page 1 and start reading them again. ("A good reader [...] is a rereader" Nabokov once said.) But I think I'll put off that pleasure; there are still several of Thompson's books that I haven't read even once yet. (