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Cargando... Do the Windows Open?por Julie Hecht
   Ninguno Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro.   )1   Jackie_Sassa | Nov 20, 2015 |  Hecht's style of comedy is a very understated way of silently worrying about details that a hyper-sensitive person with embryonic social skills relentlessly fusses over. Days are ruined, or exalted, by the way a minor social awkwardness turns out, or by pondering what her surgeon would think if he could see her hotel room. If you can stand the narrator’s voice, her little exploits in mini-drama will make you smile, snigger and giggle; laughing out loud would be too heavy-handed for everyone involved. In all, I’m not quite sure what to make of this collection. I suspect that these stories might actually be rather enjoyable when presented as individual chunks, the way they were originally published. But placing them next to each other, in book-form, is overkill; I found myself needing a little break between stories. On the whole, though, the tales are funny, and most managed to hold my attention all the way through. (  ) Petroglyph | Jun 3, 2014 |  ) autumnesf | Dec 25, 2010 |  ) babelgirl | May 5, 2010 | ) patience_crabstick | Jun 26, 2008 |
 Ms. Hecht refuses to play it safe with her heroine, whose eye for detail is deadly. Nothing and no one, including herself, is exempt. She has devastating things to say about the way people look and act. The ethical implications of Gary Hart's comb-over, the poor quality of contemporary ''peanut-eating styles,'' the exact topography of a certain kind of ''toupee mistake'' are all scrutinized, interrogated and catalogued; she compulsively sorts out the surfaces of the world as if looking for evidence or trying to solve for x. Acutely aware of time, place and history, she identifies a man as ''so young he was from the generation of human beings who use the word 'like' to mean 'said.' '' Contenido en
"The narrator of these highly original stories, all of which have appeared in The New Yorker, surveys the world with deadpan wit and candor. She's a photographer who has been attempting for three years to photograph a world-renowned reproductive surgeon/comedian who can't sit still long enough for his picture to be taken. Her other projects include photographing Anne Sexton's childhood home and Walden Pond. Along the way she keeps searching for some sign of sanity and order amid the mediocrity, waste, pointlessness, vulgarity, junk food, and TV programs of contemporary America. She's an astute observer of modern life's strange complexities - windows that don't open, the footwear of endodontists, and husbands who don't talk - and at the same time she's hilariously and poignantly caught up in them." "The decline of our culture and everyday decency are brought into sharp focus by this unique, besieged sensibility, as is the beauty of vegetarianism, the use of Mozart for transcending root-canal therapy, and the heartache of floor refinishing and fluorescent lighting. In Do the Windows Open? Julie Hecht, with her distinctive voice and wry humor, has given us a tragi-comedy of missed connections and opportunities, vividly illuminating the way we live now."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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