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Cargando... Oh, My Darlingpor Shaena Lambert
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 As it turns out, what’s lost and gone forever is a major theme in these 10 carefully crafted stories...Private worlds laid open to scrutiny. What is most on display in all of the stories in Oh, My Darling is the succinct, explicit power of observation of the writer. There isn’t a discordant note anywhere. With a subtle but consuming strength, the 10 stories in Oh, My Darling examine the complex and fraught domains of family dynamics, friendship, love, betrayal, and loss, featuring characters on the verge of being unsettled as they seek to understand themselves and their roles in often strange and devastating circumstances. Fulfilling the promise of her debut, Oh, My Darling proves that Lambert has earned a place in the tradition of talented Canadian short-story writer... The author displays a skilful control of pace, creating just the right amount of tension. In all of these stories, Lambert pulls the reader in with deft and seamless prose, complex characters, insight into our often contradictory emotions, and the originality of her voice – a combination that results in an absorbing and vivid book. Listas de sobresalientes
Here are ten remarkable stories about contemporary life, family, children and love. They highlight the secret streams that run through relationships: the moments of revelation, the subtle acts of revenge, and the lengths to which we will go for love. The stories includes a couple who plan an environmental protest by placing the husband inside a cage in front of an aquarium; a middle-aged mother who becomes embroiled with a young man as she tries to understand her son's addiction; a boy on a Caribbean island who tries to deal with his father's Nazi past; an old man who obsesses over the size of his coffin and whether he can be transported in it down his narrow apartment stairs; and a couple who uncover their secret fate at the Delphic Oracle in Greece. Passionate and precise, these stories are infused with an uncommon originality. This is writing of the very first order by one of Canada's best writers. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Each story in this collection is like a mysterious, slippery fish that is played out on a slender line of plot, reeled in, let out again, then hauled quickly to a silvery finish. Lambert is one of the masters of the short story in Canada and reminds me that short stories are literary in the best sense, an art as well as a craft. Many of the stories in Oh, My Darling are about the interplay between men and women. In one of my favourites, "In Delphi", we engage with the raw isolation at the core of human relationships in prose as fine as E.M. Forster's in Passage to India. (