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Chargement... Taking Pictures: Stories (2008)par Anne Enright
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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. I picked this up to read as the author was to appear at the AWF in Auckland, and I was still unsure as to whether I would go. It is a short story collection focused on women of all ages and stages of life. I struggled to enjoy the early stories in this book. However as the characters featured in the stories matured and confronted more adult problems I appreciated the observations on feelings and life. I guess I didn't indulge in those young reckless years. I am not a risk taker... I'm beginning to think that I'm just not a fan of Anne Enright and that I should probably give up on her at this point. I thought the writing was fine in her most successful book, The Gathering], but I wasn't exactly enamoured with the overall story. This one, a collection of short stories, was a mixed bag, but I really only enjoyed two of them. A lot of unlikeable characters (many of them drunk) in unrealistic situations. A generous 1.5 stars out of 5, simply because it wasn't as bad as The Wig My Father Wore. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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The stories in Taking Pictures are snapshots of the body in trouble: in denial, in extremis, in love. Mapping the messy connections between people - and their failures to connect - the characters are captured in the grainy texture of real life: freshly palpable, sensuous and deeply flawed. From Dublin to Venice, from an American college dorm to a holiday caravan in France, these are stories about women stirred, bothered, or fascinated by men they cannot understand, or understand too well. Enright's women are haunted by children, and by the ghosts of the lives they might have led - lit by new flames, old flames, and flames that are guttering out.A woman's one night stand is illuminated by dreams of a young boy on a cliff road, another's is thwarted by an swarm of somnolent bees. A pregnant woman is stuck in a slow lift with a tactile American stranger, a naked mother changes a nappy in a hotel bedroom, and waits for her husband to come back from the bar. These are sharp, vivid stories of loss and yearning, of surrender to responsibilities or to unexpected delight; all share the unsettling, dislocated reality, the subversive wit and awkward tenderness that have marked Anne Enright as one of our most thrillingly gifted writers. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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There's only one in the book that looks a little like something you might write for a creative writing seminar — "What you want," where a cleaner at the opera house reflects on wishes and aspirations as she works — but even that manages to avoid the directions that stories of that kind are supposed to take. It's not about the contrast between her lowly position in life and her glamorous workplace (although it doesn't ignore that): it's a more general and very sympathetic working out of what the really important things missing from someone's life might be.
Enright is a clever story-teller, good at taking us inside the heads of her characters and getting us to see the world from their points of view. If I had to compare her with someone, I think Alice Munro might be a more obvious candidate than Joyce. Very enjoyable. ( )