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Lädt ... Ganado Redvon Susan Lowell
   500 Great Books by Women (443) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  m.belljackson | Mar 28, 2021 |    ) debnance | Jan 29, 2010 | Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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From KIRKUS: Here, a striking first collection--eight stories and a novella--from Lowell, winner of the first Milkweed Editions National Fiction Prize. Lowell writes mostly about the American Southwest and shows more interest in terrain--both psychic and geographic--than plot. Tenses shift, time speeds up and slows down, and Lowell's characters often Fall down existential rabbit-holes of memory, fear, or angst. These stories have an almost dreamlike movement but, grounded as they are in precise and poetic detail, they remain convincingly real. The narrator of ""White Canyon"" shares her nostalgic memories of childhood in a Utah uranium-mining camp: along with more innocuous scenes, there's the chattering of Geiger counters during a fallout storm. Then the story jumps to the present, with the narrator's hospitalization and discovery of a brain tumor. All of a sudden, her memories are not merely nostalgic, but an attempt to make sense of experience and perception. Lowell is adept at presenting cross-sections of society: ""Los Mojados"" looks at the relationships between two generations of Anglo ranchers, Mexican cowboys, and illegal aliens; ""Wild Pigs"" charts the reactions of five different households to the javelinas that appear in a one-time desert wilderness now developed for condos, highways and Pizza Huts; the novella ""Ganado Red,"" in five storylike chapters, follows a Navajo rug from the hands of the woman who weaves it in 1920. through the hands of the various people who buy it up until 1981. An impressive debut--and a splendid start for the Milkweed Editions contest. 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: (3.25)
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Tiny, perfect illustrations precede each chapter.
"White Canyon" = a doubled edged horror story with both fallout from the Atomic Energy Commission
and President Eisenhower lying,
distilling the fate of a young wife and mother. "One up, one down, the deer hung in my nightmares."
"The Kill" = one strange choice of a "gift."
Rather than foreshadowing, the inevitable reigns.
My second least enjoyed story.
"A Circle, A Square, A Moon, A Tree" = oddly distant Princeton Graduate students and a child observed...
then not. And why kill a tree for no reason?
"Marble" = puzzling foreshadowing tension. No explanation for significance of initial photo of woman.
Annoying running son again a too predictable sequence. Adults disconnected and unhappy = why?
"Lavinia Peace" = two sisters reconcile around a Great Grandmother's memory.
Gradually and delicately, the plot reveals their conflicting characters.
"Childish Things" = suicide and guns, an Arizona favorite? Did we need this one?
"Los Mojados" = My 2nd most Favorite...wetbacks are people who escape.
(Compassion except for the "I could easily just kill you all" undercurrent.)
Linda and Joe complicit companions!
"Wild Pigs" = Javelinas offer dread in place of anticipation in my 3rd favorite.
Blessings for that first paragraph to be read over and over...and then read on...
^^^^^^^^^^^^
What Arizona lovers may not understand is why I/we cannot grasp why you would want to live or stay in
a place where rain/no rain is the constant, notably with the Oglala Aquifer long drying up.
Cities built in the desert? Porque?!?
^^^^^^^^^^^^
GANADO RED, the title story, did not round up the full five stars.
After Adjiba Yazzie, "La Tejedora" and my 4th favorite, is gently delivered as a person with a story to love,
connections to the rest of the characters fall mostly to the side, leaving the plot slanting away.
Love to see all of Adjiba's blankets! (