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.” |
De dentro do livro
Resultados 1-5 de 31
Página 13
... looked at the flags on the young peo- ple's club . We moved back to the Town Committee office and shut the windows and shouted and squabbled for an hour , with contradic- tory information arriving every moment . Where is Mikhail ? a ...
... looked at the flags on the young peo- ple's club . We moved back to the Town Committee office and shut the windows and shouted and squabbled for an hour , with contradic- tory information arriving every moment . Where is Mikhail ? a ...
Página 15
... looked like someone had carved his life mask from a rich tropical wood . At some point I told an orderly I'd be back and went to find Petya . While hunting his apartment address I asked whomever I encountered if they had children . If ...
... looked like someone had carved his life mask from a rich tropical wood . At some point I told an orderly I'd be back and went to find Petya . While hunting his apartment address I asked whomever I encountered if they had children . If ...
Página 20
... looked at me with disapproval and dropped the subject . At Pripyat a sawhorse was set up as a checkpoint , manned by an officer and two soldiers . The soldiers had holes poked in their respirators for cigarettes . They'd been expecting ...
... looked at me with disapproval and dropped the subject . At Pripyat a sawhorse was set up as a checkpoint , manned by an officer and two soldiers . The soldiers had holes poked in their respirators for cigarettes . They'd been expecting ...
Página 24
... looked to find anything . All of this is probably going to make my brother go off and we all know it , but none of us can stop . He was institutionalized at sixteen and released eight months later . It was at Yale - New Haven , a ...
... looked to find anything . All of this is probably going to make my brother go off and we all know it , but none of us can stop . He was institutionalized at sixteen and released eight months later . It was at Yale - New Haven , a ...
Página 48
Você atingiu seu limite de visualização deste livro.
Você atingiu seu limite de visualização deste livro.
Conteúdo
24 | |
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 |
Outras edições - Ver todos
Termos e frases comuns
Aeschylus already Anacreon Anne-Marie answered Arctic Cat asked Beger Big Coach blow boat brother Browne Bykovsky called Chang Tang Chris Cilurnum Cuppage dark drays eyes face fat kid father feel feet finally fire flashlight fucking Gallia Belgica gone Hadrian's Wall hair hand head hear heard helmet Hill horses hour Joyce kilometers knew Korolyov Kynegeiros later Lituya Bay looked Mander-Jones Mikhail milecastle minutes morning mother mouth never night Ninth Legion Pepeekeo Petya pilum play Pripyat rain reactor remember reminded rock Ron Hansen says scared guy seemed sherpas shit shoulder sleep smell Solovyova someone sound stopped talk tell tent There's thing thought Tibetan tion told took trying turned Vostok Wainwright wait walk Wall wants to know watch wave week whaleboat What's who'd wife yeti