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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Wonderful writing but most of the stories are pretty bleak. I loved "North Country", "Break All the Way Down", and "How". ( ) I started this right before bed, thinking I'd read a story or two before sleeping. It was about 3:30 AM when I next looked at the clock. The stories were that good. The stories in this collection were ugly and dark, but also beautifully written and completely compelling. They showed how healing can be a painful process. While most of the stories were contemporary, there were a few that edged into magical realism, if not outright SF. The one alternate history of a US where the South had seceded after the election of (supposedly) President Obama hit home, given the current political climate. And the very science fiction story of a world in which a coal miner flew to the sun and snuffed it out in order to make himself feel whole was beautiful. A gorgeous collection that made me want to read everything Gay's written. Brilliant. Disturbing. Short stories, many about women totally foreign to me. Yet, I kept reading because a few of them were like me in some ways, or like women I know. The details, settings, twists, conversations, and deep woundedness surprised me in dark and thrilling ways. Favorites are the magical realism stories. Wow. Difficult Women is a collection of beautifully written stories about the pain and anger hidden deep down inside screaming for release. Some of them are shocking, maybe even ugly. But they are very real. Completely & brutally honest. They are stripped bare & they are brave. "a collection of stories of rare force and beauty, of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection." Roxane Gay's writing is phenomenal. The diverse cast of women in these stories come from places of privilege, poverty, and everything in between. They cover topics of violence, love, hate, sex, guilt, trauma, loss, motherhood, race, relationships, and abuse. Each story/woman is distinctly her own person and at the same time universally all of us. As dark as this collection is, it is also full of strength, endurance, love, and even hope. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Dos hermanas, ya adultas, han sido ua y carne desde que las secuestraron siendo unas nias, y deben negociar el matrimonio de la hermana ms joven. Una mujer casada con un hombre que tiene un gemelo finge no darse cuenta cuando marido y hermano se intercambian los roles. Una estrper que consigue sacarse el ttulo de bachillerato repele las insinuaciones de un cliente ultraceloso. Una ingeniera negra se traslada por trabajo a la pennsula superior de Michigan y se enfrenta a la curiosidad maliciosa de sus colegas y a la dificultad de dejar atrs su pasado. Bien sea en un club de lucha de chicas, bien en un opulento complejo urbanstico de Florida, con vecinos que se amoldan, compiten y espan entre s, Gay ofrece al lector una visin sardnica, hermosa e inquietante de la Amrica moderna.
What do difficult women hide? What have they experienced? The protagonists in these stories are nothing like they are believed to be. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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