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Lädt ... Trailer Girl: and Other Storiesvon Terese Svoboda
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"Svoboda dazzles her readers with colors, calls, and gestures in scenes that we don't immediately understand. But each time, without fail, she is true to her poetic calling and wipes away the initial cloudiness of the story's slate, revealing disturbing truths whose images will insinuate themselves during our real lives — as we order a cappuccino at a coffee shop or step into our orderly, secure homes at night. Her creations will never rest quietly in our minds, but will remind us of the breadth of the world and the smallness of the piece that each of us samples from it." We see the ordinary anew through her cracked lens: It's always breaking up, shifting shape and surprising us. “You have to listen, carefully, to Terese Svoboda’s stories. You have to read them slowly, more than once, sounding the words this way and that, letting yourself interpret, not with logic alone, but using the tools of poetry–association, juxtaposition, metaphor. Even what’s left out can be significant. For these are not so much stories in the traditional sense as tangled situations, networks of convoluted yet precisely controlled language. And you don’t read through them, but into them, going deeper each time.” “Svoboda’s tales are so shiver-inducing they could almost be ghost stories.” "Powerful cutting-edge literary fiction."
In this stunningly original collection of seventeen short stories, Terese Svoboda navigates a terrain of alienation and loss with searing, poetic prose. "I talk like a lady who knows what she wants," begins the vagrant narrator of the title story. She insists there's a wild child hiding among the cows in the gully near her home. Others in the trailer park think it's just herself she's chasing, but no one helps her sort out the truth--until there's a murder. Stark and disturbing, "Trailer Girl" is a story of cycles of child abuse and the dream to escape them. In "Psychic" a clairvoyant knows she's been hired by a murderer, in "Leadership" a tiny spaceship lands between a boy and his parents, in "Lost the Baby" a partying couple forget where they dropped off their baby, and in "White" a grandfather explains to his grandson how a family is like a collection of chicken parts. Frequently violent, always passionate, these often short short stories are not the condensed versions of longer works but are full-strength, as strong and precise as poetry. Watch the Trailer Girl book trailer on YouTube. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
Autoren-ChatTerese Svoboda hat mit LibraryThing-Mitgliedern von Oct 19, 2009 bis Oct 30, 2009 gechattet. Lies den Chat hier nach. Aktuelle DiskussionenKeine
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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