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Lädt ... In The Gloaming: Storiesvon Alice Elliott Dark
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Dark is a great author, but I think I prefer her novels. The title was good though and a few others, but some I just wasn't crazy about. ( ) Of all the stories in In the Gloaming only two were not tinged with sadness and general dissatisfaction. Every story is comprised of three components: characters with dilemmas or decisions to make, human interactions that depend on the outcome of the dilemma or decision, and a sparse plot serving as a thin backdrop to the character conflict. Case in point: Mother and son get to know each other in the title story. Son is dying of AIDS while father slips out of the picture. Mother's dilemma is whether to acknowledge her son's inevitable demise or pretend his life has hope. Another example, in "The Jungle Lodge" two sisters are on vacation in the Amazon. One sister has the dilemma of whether or not to tell the other she had been raped while discovering her sister's improper relationship. One last dilemma. In "Close" a man's dilemma is which woman to continue a relationship with, his pretty mistress or his pregnant wife while learning his childhood home is up for sale.Each dilemma or decision has an impact on the supporting characters. Is there a law that short stories have to be depressing? The last book of them I read (Hateship…) was not so bad in this regard, but still most of the stories were downers. In this book, all the stories are downers. The “gloaming” refers to dusk or dawn, a sense of transition—does no one ever transition to something happy? The title story is about a woman watching her son die of AIDS—they share the evening hour together, but it is also the gloaming of his life. In “Home,” a woman with Alzheimer’s disease tries to handle her husband’s decision to move them into a nursing home, as he has made all their decisions, when she cannot remember the details of it from one day to the next. The final story, “Watch the Animals,” does end on the book’s most uplifting note; as a woman dies of cancer, she finally makes an impact on the closed-minded super-traditional upper crust world into which she was born. The story is narrated in an amorphous “we” reacting to what they perceive as this woman’s peculiarities, peculiarities which they seem finally to value. keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
"The gloaming is the hour when dawn or dusk works its spell, making all the world as purple as the Scottish highlands on a summer night. In Alice Elliott Dark's heart-catching title story, a loving mother shares this favorite time of day with her dying son, all the while realizing that for him it is already dark." "In the Gloaming is populated by characters yearning for twilight moments, existing as they do in indeterminate emotional states not easily defined. In "The Secret Spot," Helen dodges the knife of confession during a chance encounter with an old rival. In "Maniacs," two sisters unexpectedly see a man they have both loved. In "Dreadful Language," Frannie follows in her mother's footsteps by marrying for security rather than love."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved 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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