Like You'd Understand, Anyway: StoriesKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 19 de nov. de 2008 - 224 páginas Following his widely acclaimed Project X and Love and Hydrogen—“Here is the effect of these two books,” wrote the Chicago Tribune: “A reader finishes them buzzing with awe”—Jim Shepard now gives us his first entirely new collection in more than a decade. Like You’d Understand, Anyway reaches from Chernobyl to Bridgeport, with a host of narrators only Shepard could bring to pitch-perfect life. Among them: a middle-aged Aeschylus taking his place at Marathon, still vying for parental approval. A maddeningly indefatigable Victorian explorer hauling his expedition, whaleboat and all, through the Great Australian Desert in midsummer. The first woman in space and her cosmonaut lover, caught in the star-crossed orbits of their joint mission. Two Texas high school football players at the top of their food chain, soliciting their fathers’ attention by leveling everything before them on the field. And the rational and compassionate chief executioner of Paris, whose occupation, during the height of the Terror, eats away at all he holds dear. Brimming with irony, compassion, and withering humor, these eleven stories are at once eerily pertinent and dazzlingly exotic, and they showcase the work of a protean, prodigiously gifted writer at the height of his form. Reading Jim Shepard, according to Michael Chabon, “is like encountering our national literature in microcosm.” |
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... eyes stung . It felt as though something was being boiled in his chest . There was an acid taste to the steam and a buzz of static on his skin . He learned later that the radiation field was so powerful it was ionizing the air . " Take ...
... eyes stung . It felt as though something was being boiled in his chest . There was an acid taste to the steam and a buzz of static on his skin . He learned later that the radiation field was so powerful it was ionizing the air . " Take ...
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... eyes streamed tears as they reeled about , so sluggish and disoriented it took them an hour to traverse the half kilometer to the medical station . By the time they arrived , it resembled a war zone . The Individual Citizen in the ...
... eyes streamed tears as they reeled about , so sluggish and disoriented it took them an hour to traverse the half kilometer to the medical station . By the time they arrived , it resembled a war zone . The Individual Citizen in the ...
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... eyes closed , some minutes later . I'd thought he'd fallen asleep . As far as I knew , he wasn't aware that his brother was on the floor below him . " I have to get on with this , " the orderly finally remarked . When I told him to shut ...
... eyes closed , some minutes later . I'd thought he'd fallen asleep . As far as I knew , he wasn't aware that his brother was on the floor below him . " I have to get on with this , " the orderly finally remarked . When I told him to shut ...
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... eyes and mouth tightly closed , and listened . I was in Georgia at the start - up of a new plant the day he died . He was buried , like the others in his condition , in a lead - lined coffin that was soldered shut . Petya was by then an ...
... eyes and mouth tightly closed , and listened . I was in Georgia at the start - up of a new plant the day he died . He was buried , like the others in his condition , in a lead - lined coffin that was soldered shut . Petya was by then an ...
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... eye could see : fire engines , armored personnel carriers , cranes , backhoes , ambulances , cement mixers , trucks . It was the world's largest junkyard . Most had been scavenged for parts , however radioactive . Each step off the road ...
... eye could see : fire engines , armored personnel carriers , cranes , backhoes , ambulances , cement mixers , trucks . It was the world's largest junkyard . Most had been scavenged for parts , however radioactive . Each step off the road ...
Conteúdo
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Trample the Dead Hurdle the Weak | 47 |
Ancestral Legacies | 64 |
Pleasure Boating in Lituya | 79 |
The First South Central Australian Expedition | 100 |
My Aeschylus | 129 |
Eros 7 | 143 |
Courtesy for Beginners | 165 |
Sans Farine | 185 |
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