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Alice Petersen

Autor de All the Voices Cry

5 Obras 52 Miembros 3 Reseñas

Obras de Alice Petersen

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Boy, do I love me some old cookbooks. This Sunday News collection from 1962 is a great over-sized edition with plenty of oddly-colored pictures illustrating some of the more dubious recipes within. Can you say Gelatin Mold?
 
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smichaelwilson | May 31, 2017 |
Each of the stories in this collection is quietly centred, modest in display, but incisive, detached, and kind. Petersen is neither full of the bravado of a young writer, nor hesitant and uncertain. She writes with a measured pace, perhaps with an eye more to the British form of the short story rather than the American. She has feet in many worlds with ties in Canada, New Zealand, and England, and this comes out in the settings and characters within her stories.

I especially like the musical theme of “Morendo”, as well as the related themes of effort and excellence (in music) found in the opening and closing stories, “Music Minus One” and “The Parisian Eye”, which were originally published together. I enjoyed the near-epistolary nature of “Dear Ian Fairfield” and the unease the narrator takes on in “A Nice, Clean Copy.” There is much here to admire. I shall eagerly await new works from Alice Petersen and gently recommend this collection for those looking for an otherwise unassuming new voice in the short story form.… (más)
 
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RandyMetcalfe | Jun 26, 2016 |
The characters in these stories spring alive through Petersen's rare gift for precise lyrical writing. Here's a quote: "While she chanted, she tied her hair up. Colin looked away. It was impossible to witness the movement of her shoulder blades and not to wish to make a personal measurement of the space between the lopsided bikini bow and the slight shadow it cast on the middle of her back." (p.63) A simple sentence, chosen randomly, that shows us Colin's attraction to yet estrangement from the woman, while detailing an exact image for the reader. In these stories every sentence carries the same sureness. I cannot wait to read her next book.… (más)
 
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brocade | Mar 9, 2013 |

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5
Miembros
52
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3.9
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3
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