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Cargando... Things to Make and Breakpor May-Lan Tan
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.  PaulLoesch | Apr 2, 2022 |   Since this is a collection of stories, I expected to find some I liked, some I didn't and some that left no impression at all, but I was disappointed to find, instead, stories I disliked and others which left little impression at all. The entire volume is dark, glum, pessimistic. There are no characters with whom to relate, for whom to feel empathy or even strong enough to really leave an impression. They are ghosts haunting life and making it unlivable. Even the all too vivid descriptions of sex seem more like unhappy, joyless incidents in which the characters perform sex, neither for love nor pleasure, but just to do it. Overall, I felt like the entire collection was written by someone who has been on anti-depressants her whole life and really needed to up her dose; they aren't working. (  ) Paul-the-well-read | Apr 18, 2020 |  asianamlitfans | Aug 25, 2014 | sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"In these eleven stories, Tan explores the idea that every relationship between two people is actually a relationship between three people: each relationship encompasses and relies upon an interstitial presence--another person, a former self, a future lover. Within this loose thematic constraint, a series of related worlds unspool. Teenagers in a band betray each other. A woman gets so obsessed with photos of her boyfriend's ex that she eventually contrives a way to meet her. A woman has a relationship with her sister's husband's brother that darkly, secretly parallels her sister's happy marriage. Each character is a mirror, double or proxy of someone else, hinting at the possibility that we seek out the same person in different bodies and churn through cycles of self-invention/-annihilation." -- No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Since this is a collection of stories, I expected to find some I liked, some I didn't and some that left no impression at all, but I was disappointed to find, instead, stories I disliked and others which left little impression at all.
The entire volume is dark, glum, pessimistic. There are no characters with whom to relate, for whom to feel empathy or even strong enough to really leave an impression. They are ghosts haunting life and making it unlivable. Even the all too vivid descriptions of sex seem more like unhappy, joyless incidents in which the characters perform sex, neither for love nor pleasure, but just to do it.
Overall, I felt like the entire collection was written by someone who has been on anti-depressants her whole life and really needed to up her dose; they aren't working. (