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Lädt ... Aliens of Affection: Stories (Aliens of Affection) (1998. Auflage)von Padgett Powell
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When Mrs. Hollingsworth, a spirited, eccentric lady, first encounters the truculent 12-year-old boy whose seduction of her (unless it's the other way around) is the subject of ''Trick or Treat,'' the opening story in Padgett Powell's new collection, she is thinking, as Powell's characters so often do, about the South. ''The South?'' challenges the boy, a leering ''portrait of insolence.'' ''What's that?'' '' 'This,' Mrs. Hollingsworth said, indicating with her arm the trees and air and houses and suspiring history and ennui and corruption and meanness and game violators and bottomland and chivalric humanism and people who are smart about money and people who don't have a clue and heroism and stray pets around them.'' She might have added to this list writers who populate their fiction with spirited eccentrics and who write in great rushes of lyricism, testing the conventions of syntax or flouting them outright. For superimposed upon the actual South, at times blotting it out entirely, is an imaginary region of unsurpassed fertility, whose history suspires largely in books. We are at present in the midst of yet another quiet boom in Southern fiction, as writers like Larry Brown, Lewis Nordan, Jill McCorkle and Frederick Barthelme politely jostle for space in the pantheon alongside William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Penn Warren and Walker Percy.
A New York Times Notable Book: The idiosyncratic genius of Padgett Powell shines through in nine stories that bend the conventions of short fiction. Padgett Powell's literary stage is a blurred vision of the American South. His characters are bored, sad, assured, confused, deluded, and often just one step away from madness. The stories they populate are madder still, delivered by a voice enthralling and distinctive. Whether he's chronicling a housewife's encouragement of adolescent lust, following two good ol' boys on their search for a Chinese healer, or delving into the mind of an unstable moped accident survivor as he awaits a hefty settlement check, Powell revels in the irregularities of the mundane. His people occupy bar stools and strip clubs, pickup truck cabs and mental health clinics, looking for love, drugs, answers. According to the New York Times Book Review, "Mr. Powell is like a fabulous guest at a dinner party, the guy who gets people drinking far too much and licking their dessert plates and laughing at jokes--for which not a few of them will hate themselves in the morning." Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
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