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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book was pretty good. Each chapter focuses on a different person living in a small town in Connecticut. The chapters are separate yet connected, tying together characters and occurrences across chapters. I found the author's choice of title a little foolish seeing as it focuses on only one chapter of the novel. I would have preferred a title that linked together all the chapters and represented the book as a whole a little bit better. The ending of the novel was good but not great. It was eventful but did not really tie up any loose ends. This book is a nice light read for a rainy day but no masterpiece. After reading all the praise, I had to try this collection of short stories for myself. My high praise shows up as this crow. Several reviewers compared her writings to John Cheever, which I can see because of the constant suburban setting, but she has some very unique, sometimes unsettling, plot twists of her very own. The stories are interrelated, with some characters showing up, or mentioned, in many of the stories. At times, the previously mentioned characters are scampering around on the edges of another story, and other times they're upfront and face-on. This is an upscale suburbia, but different, and more contemporary, than the meetings over the ever-presnt cocktails of Cheever's stories. I am still thinking — and a little haunted — by the man who bribes a surgeon to be allowed into the operating theater during his wife's brain surgery, and allowed to reach out and actually touch her exposed brain. There's a lot of stress in these wealthy homes, and it was interesting to read about how the author enjoys driving around her very own neighborhood in Westchester County, New York, imaging what lurks within the restored and sometimes McMansioned homes. I found these stories very good, very clever, and I'm glad that I made that suburban trip again. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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HTML:"In 13 sharply drawn linked stories, Acampora reveals the complexities beneath the polish and privilege of a prosperous Connecticut town."â??People A man strikes an under-the-table deal with a surgeon to spend a few quiet seconds closer to his wife than he's ever been; a young soon-to-be mother looks on in paralyzing astonishment as her husband walks away from a twenty-year career in advertising at the urging of his spirit animal; an elderly artist risks more than he knows when he's commissioned by his newly-arrived neighbors to produce the work of a lifetime. In her stunning debut collection, The Wonder Garden, Lauren Acampora brings to the page with enchanting realism the myriad lives of a suburban town and lays them bare. These linked stories take a trenchant look at the flawed people of Old Cranbury, incisive tales that reveal at each turn the unseen battles we play out behind drawn blinds, the creeping truths from which we distract ourselves, and the massive dreams we haul quietly with us and hold close. Deliciously creepy and masterfully complex The Wonder Garden heralds the arrival of a phenomenal new talent in American fiction. "Like Wharton, Acampora seems to understand fiction as a kind of elegant design."â??The New York Times Book Review "Acampora is a brilliant anthropologist of the suburbs . . . [The Wonder Garden] is reminiscent of John Cheever in its anatomizing of suburban ennui and of Ann Beattie in its bemused dissection of a colorful cast of eccentrics."â??Boston Globe "Intelligent, unnerving, and very often strange . . . as irresistible as it is disturbing."â??Publishers Weekly (star No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I enjoy this type of book and I mostly enjoyed this too but I was disappointed that so many of the stories left without resolution. I want to know just a little bit more.
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