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Cargando... Ideas of Heaven: A Ring of Stories (2004)por Joan Silber
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. While she can't match Alice Munro or Joyce Carol Oates, this is nevertheless a very competent book of short stories, both historical and contemporary. I particularly enjoyed Ideas of Heaven. I thought that the character devolopment of Liz from a very young and idealistic wife and mother to missionary torn between the welfare of her children and the need to convert the Chinese to christianity was very well done. With the Boxer rebellion in the background, Liz, like so many women, sees the practicalities and realities of the situation and agonizes over what she has sacrified. very well done. One of the best short story collections I've read in several years. Silber subtly connects each story--you have to think a bit, in some cases, to see the connection. I'm not a conventionally 'religious' person, but this book left me feeling spiritually moved by the various concepts of faith the characters experience, from missionary zeal to belief in oneself to hope in the form of the most unexpected fellow human. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Set in modern-day America and France, Renaissance Italy and Boxer Rebellion China, these stories embrace whole lifetimes, much in the manner of Alice Munro and William Trevor. Joan Silber skilfully and subtly ties one story to the next, as a minor element in one becomes a major element in the next, until the last is tied convincingly to the first. Intense in subject yet restrained in tone, they are about longings - often held for years - and the ways in which sex and religion can become parallel forms of dedication and comfort. From a wannabe dancer in contemporary New York City to missionaries in China, 'Ideas of Heaven' showcases Joan Silber's extraordinary deftness as she illuminates love, faith and sex with great originality and profundity. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Yet another one of those "I don't like this kind of thing, but I like this instance of it" books.
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