Danielle Evans
Autor de The Office of Historical Corrections: A Novella and Stories
Sobre El Autor
Obras de Danielle Evans
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Evans, Danielle Valore
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1983
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Virginia, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Washington, D.C., USA
Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Fairfax, Virginia, USA
Arlington, Virginia, USA
New York, USA
Cleveland, Ohio, USA - Educación
- Columbia University (Anthropology)
University of Iowa (Writers’ Workshop)
Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing (fellow) - Ocupaciones
- teacher of fiction writing (American University, College of Arts and Sciences)
- Premios y honores
- National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" (2011)
- Agente
- Ayesha Pande
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 4
- También por
- 6
- Miembros
- 1,175
- Popularidad
- #21,896
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 66
- ISBNs
- 18
- Idiomas
- 1
“Why Won’t Women Just Say What They Want” is a strange tale about an artist who treated the women in his life terribly and later goes about apologizing to each of them in a big way. But every story after that improved for me, and I especially loved the story “Alcatraz” and the novella at the that gave the book its name, “The Office of Historical Corrections.” The latter is about a historian, Cassie, who leaves her tenure-track professorship to work for a new (fictional, a little creepy, but certainly plausible) federal government departing, the Institute for Public History, jokingly referred to as the Office of Historical Corrections. The people who work for the Institute are charged with leaving notes that clarify inaccurate historical facts on display throughout the country, from souvenirs to commemorative plaques.
The threads running these stories are atonement, loss, and race, and they are often told with subtlety and wry humor. I would have given five stars if the first few stories had not caused me some difficulty, but the novella itself would have earned five stars, as well as some of the other stories.… (más)