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Lädt ... The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (2023. Auflage)von Stephen Hundley (Autor)
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. The title The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First by Stephen Hundley caught my eye when it appeared on LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers list, and the publishers’ description of fantasy and science fiction elements introduced to the Southern literary tradition was intriguing. The stories are well written, with vivid descriptions and complex characters. Unfortunately, like another reviewer, I found that these characters were not people I liked or would want to know. This collection would probably appeal to fans of Southern Gothic. I believe, however, that I must finally accept that I am not part of that audience. ( )Diese Rezension wurde für LibraryThing Early Reviewers geschrieben. This wonderful collection of short stories tells many a tale about people in the south. While most of the narrators are not people I much liked, I understood them the way you do when you meet someone from home. If you have an interest in Georgia, or the south and its literature I think you will find plenty to mull over in these pages. This isn’t a book about aliens as the title may lead you to believe, but of how weird people here can be. Please forgive the shortness of this early review, my town has been ravaged by hurricane Idalia this week, so I am typing this on my phone.PS. There’s implied and verified dog death in the stories, so be gentle with yourself if that’s a trigger for you. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First is the debut short fiction collection by Stephen Hundley that showcases sixteen bizarre, hard-loving stories set in the foothills, pinelands, low country, and barrier islands of Georgia and a few other places too. Hundley's men and women grapple with death, distant lovers, damaged families as well as sharks, stray dogs, and man-eating tigers, while exploring questions of belonging and duty to people and place. A man discovers an abandoned child at a flea market. A diver visits a sleeping nuclear bomb just a mile from the beach. A woman prophesizes visitors from the stars. This collection works to make the familiar new, and to introduce fantasy and science fiction spurs to the Southern literary tradition.In "Settled," winner of the 2019 Larry Brown Short Story Award, a town is evacuated before a planned flood, but some citizens decide to affix pontoons to the bottom of their house and ride out the storm. While the diner is ripped apart for sport by bored deputies, and wild animals flee the woods, a man moves the grave of his son to higher ground and pleads with his estranged wife to leave for safety, but the forces of guilt and grief compel her to stay, even as the feral dogs howl and the helicopters circle and the flood waters prepare to tear it all away. Hundley brings his characters to the breaking point, where the choices are extreme, and there isn't always a clean way out. The forces in this world inflict brutal wounds and leave their victims estranged and confused. All that remains is the connection of homeplace and the forgiveness they offer, or withhold, from the ones they love.The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First offers an intimate glimpse into a working class and American South populated by men and women who have made themselves acolytes of existential powers-atomic bombs and aliens, the ocean and desperate love. This is a book for dreamers and space cadets, for fighters and providers, for anyone who believes in a connection between the places we come from and the people we become. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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