Gloria Winters từ Noyers-Auzécourt, France

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11/22/2024

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Gloria Winters Sách lại (10)

2018-07-27 05:31

Sống Mòn Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Nam Cao

At Home Anywhere, a collection of four short stories by Mary Hoffman, was the 2010 New Rivers Press Many Voices Project award winner. MVP judge, Leif Enger, surely saw the promise of Hoffman’s gritty and minimalistic style. Hoffman’s work also exemplifies a fascinating movement over the course of the collection. The stories progress in style and mood as you read on. “Flat Earth Society” starts off the collection with a pessimistic view of contemporary society, and the stories gain momentum (in both tone and character interaction) from there. In “Flat Earth Society” we meet Bill Roubideau, a middle-aged man applying for welfare in Coney Island. Readers learn of Roubideau’s past afflictions with cocaine, his dark sexual past, and his lives in both New Orleans, and New York. This is perhaps Hoffman’s rawest selection included in the collection, and it gives us a sense of understanding of what it is to start life over from the bottom. From this story on, Hoffman’s characters – all different – maneuver society and contemporary life in progressively better ways. Hoffman employs a close third person narration in each of these stories, which puts up a veil between the stories’ protagonists and the readers. “Flat Earth Society” is a thoroughly internal story with little character interaction, though the interactions that do occur are important markers in the plot. “Moths” offers much more character interaction, and allows the reader to have a better sense of Hoffman’s character motives. “Moths” is not a particularly standout story from the collection, but the dialogue is effective, and well chosen. This being said, Hoffman’s standout story is certainly the one that lends its title to the collection. “At Home Anywhere” is a story about reaching out to each other after the panic of 9/11. In this story, Douglas is enchanted with a Pakistani-owned market, and becomes a regular visitor of the store. After 9/11, he begins to worry about his connections to the store, though the owner approaches him to ask for a favor. This story is elegantly crafted and contains many lovely turns. Overall, At Home Anywhere is a collection of stories that get a reader thinking, and wanting to ponder life at every stage.

2018-07-27 07:31

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Sách được viết bởi Bởi: PandaBooks

Nova and Mal have grown up together – they are pretty much as close as it’s possible for two people to be. When Mal married Steph, who can’t have children, Nova agrees to be a surrogate for them, but when Steph changes her mind about the baby, several months into the pregnancy, Nova is left to deal with raising a child alone. Eight years later, her son Leo is in a coma. Goodnight, Beautiful deals with the kinds of effects such an even has on people, and how it forces them to come to terms with the consequences of their actions. For some reason, I always go into Koomson’s books expecting them to be uplifting – maybe because of their pretty pastel covers and the fact that they pretty much live in the chick lit section. Anyway, I did really like the book, much as it made me angry, and eventually made me cry. The writing was very thorough, and the fact that the story is told from several viewpoints, made the story much more emotionally hard-hitting. I really do love the fact that Dorothy Koomson always writes really strong, realistic women, and puts them in impossible situations. It’s the relationships they have, both their strength and their vulnerability, which make me eagerly anticipate every book she publishes. For me, the central characters in ‘Goodnight, Beautiful’ were Nova and Stephanie. Nova I loved, despite her confusion, and inability to act. Stephanie I should have hated, but couldn’t quite make myself, and I think that’s what the author intends, as it is through this character that she explores many of the core issues of the book.

Người đọc Gloria Winters từ Noyers-Auzécourt, France

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.