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Lädt ... Infinite Dimensionsvon Jessica Treadway
Books Read in 2022 (2,591) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. ![]() In one story a student contemplates the question "is it worse to be cruel to a dog than to a flea?" In another, a woman faces her ex husband's widow and just can't seem to forgive her for marrying her husband. These stories are somewhat connected by a fictional book written by the fictional Chaykovskya, a character of Treadway's own invention. It's clear in these stories that the author understands people and the things that make them tick. Characters are flawed. They hold grudges. They give into temptations. They fail. They grapple with themselves. They wonder "what kind of person am I?" In Divertimento, a character from an earlier story wonders if there is really any meaning to life, while her companion loses patience with her "pity party." I liked this story in particular because it is so similar to the conversations I have in my head with myself, that inner struggle to find meaning and hope, while pessimism tells me it's all for nothing. I think Jessica Treadway's strong suit is the way she builds these realistic characters. And so I really liked these stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
In Sky Harbor, her first collection after winning the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction for Please Come Back to Me, Jessica Treadway writes about the themes of fidelity, betrayal, and self-delusion as she portrays what William Faulkner called the human heart in conflict with itself. Following in the tradition of Elizabeth Strout and her own mentor, the late Andre Dubus, Treadway mines the internal landscapes of her characters with intimate insight as she shows them trying but often failing to live up to their own moral standards. A female bank executive with a history of psychiatric illness is forced to decide whether to hire her former hospital roommate, whom she fears will expose her past. A college student has to choose between his grandmother and his girlfriend. A recovering alcoholic faces the prospect of self-sabotage during a dinner meeting with an editor who can make or break her career. The stories are loosely linked by character, setting, and the motif of a talking sugar bowl that appears in the work of the Russian author Anya Chaykovskaya who is, in turn, one of Treadway's own fictional characters. Hailed by The New York Times Book Review as a writer with an unsparing bent for the truth, Treadway exhibits in her stories both a deft understanding of human psychology and mastery at depicting it in multiple, complex, and intriguing forms. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
LibraryThing Early Reviewers-AutorJessica Treadways Buch Infinite Dimensions: Stories wurde im Frührezensenten-Programm LibraryThing Early Reviewers angeboten. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeine
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I loved this book. You should read it. Thank you to LibraryThing and Delphinium for a review copy. Sorry it took me six months to read it. (