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Cargando... We So Seldom Look on Lovepor Barbara Gowdy
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  Dabble58 | Nov 11, 2023 |    ) hemlokgang | Aug 20, 2017 | "FLesh of my Flesh" me tuvo leyendo entre lágrimas . Tanta ternura ! (Entre tanta perturbación de la mayoría de los demás cuentos) (  ) LaMala | Jun 7, 2015 |  ) zguba | Apr 25, 2014 | ) katelattuca | Feb 23, 2011 |
 Eine Faszination am Sonderbaren durchzieht alle acht Geschichten: Seien es die Behinderungen und Krankheiten, die ihre Figuren haben, seien es die merkwürdigen Obsessionen, denen sie ausgeliefert sind - sie sind durch und durch seltsam. Die Autorin lässt das Fremde, das vielleicht Abstoßende mit großer Sympathie lebendig werden. Sie will nicht erklären, warum ihre Charaktere so sind, wie sie sind, sondern lässt sie einfach existieren. Sie sind eben so - und warum auch nicht. "Seltsam wie die Liebe" ist ein Plädoyer für die, die das Leben bereichern, weil sie eben nicht normal sind. Und so ungewöhnlich Barbara Gowdys "Stories" sind, so ungewöhnlich groß ist auch das Lesevergnügen. Vor ihrem trockenem Witz, ihrer feinen Ironie und ihrer wohldosierten Übertreibung bleibt der Leser nicht verschont, genauso wenig wie vor Gowdys Vorliebe für kitzlige oder grausige Details. What makes [Gowdy] so gifted is her ability to come across as a sympathetic chronicler for her often bizarre characters—not by preaching the virtues of sympathy, but drawing out, often with uncanny timing and black humour, the sympathy of the misfit. These are unsettling and profoundly moving stories to be read, and reread, and then to be dreamt upon. Remarkable and uplifting. She writes like an angel. Contiene
A debut collection of short stories by the author of the novel Falling Angels. Populated by an assortment of freaks, Siamese twins, voyeurs, exhibitionists, necrophiles and transsexuals, this collection of extraordinary, bizarre and often grotesque stories is shot through with humorous sympathy. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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See, THIS is why I have terminal writer's block. You read something by Barbara Gowdy and you realize you are completely inferior and nothing you do will ever make you better enough.
These are short stories, horrifying short stories, prizewinners all. They are all about people who have an oddness about them - a conjoined twin bit attached, an extra big head, deformities of all kinds and degrees of hardships.
And I love every one of the characters. I bleed for them. The poor girl whose mother loved the legs of her twin better than she loved the whole girl, the girl whose friend has a purple suitcase by the door in case of an event...
Gowdy is so good at telling these stories that they didn't feel prurient, even though some of the people in them had non-benign interest in the characters.
Read it. Buy it for your bookshelf. And whenever you feel like sitting down and writing a book, reread it, and then go have some wine. (