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Cargando... Sleeping Funny (edición 2013)por Miranda Hill (Autor)
Información de la obraSleeping Funny: Stories por Miranda Hill
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Sleeping Funny is that rare book--a debut that introduces us to a fully mature writer, one who instantly draws you in with her lean style, empathy and wit, and keeps you reading, with growing admiration and delight, from first page to last. These stories showcase Miranda Hill's astonishing range and virtuosity, introducing us to a protean variety of characters, each as well-realized as the next. Here is a writer who can seamlessly inhabit the consciousness of a sixteen-year-old navigating an embarrassing sex-ed class, a middle-aged minister experiencing a devastating crisis of faith in a 19th century rural village, a pilot's widow coping with her grief by growing an unusual "victory garden" during World War II, and well-heeled modern professional women juggling jobs, kids, and husbands, and trying to cope with the arrival of a beautiful bohemian neighbour, on a gentrified street in downtown Toronto. The qualities that unite these remarkable stories are a pervasive sense of mystery and magic, a wonderful wit and sophistication, and most surprisingly, the slight disorientation implied by the title: In Miranda Hill's beguiling universe, the "real world" is recognizable and slightly askew, as if you were experiencing one of those strange dreams where you think you are awake--or as if you've been "sleeping funny" and are on the cusp of waking into the everyday world you thought you knew. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I very much enjoyed the surprising “Apple” though perhaps it is more of a one-off. And without doubt the opening story, “The Variance”, reveals that Hill has the potential to rise above the particular and the personal to approach the political. In all, a lot of good reading here and plenty of potential for some truly excellent writing to come. One to watch, I think. ( )