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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... read pretty much every- thing , the unending aesthetic and emotional support provided by Sandra Leong and Ron Hansen , and — as always - Karen Shepard . Like You'd Understand , Anyway The Zero Meter Diving Team X Acknowledgments.
... read pretty much every- thing , the unending aesthetic and emotional support provided by Sandra Leong and Ron Hansen , and — as always - Karen Shepard . Like You'd Understand , Anyway The Zero Meter Diving Team X Acknowledgments.
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... thing, at twenty-eight a senior turbine engineer. There were three secondary schools, a young people's club, festive covered markets, a two-screen cinema, and a Children's World department store. Plenty of good walking trails and ...
... thing, at twenty-eight a senior turbine engineer. There were three secondary schools, a young people's club, festive covered markets, a two-screen cinema, and a Children's World department store. Plenty of good walking trails and ...
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... things like " Your hair seems different than ours . Don't you think ? " So there was a murderousness to our play . We went on ram- pages around the dacha , chopping at each other with sticks and clearing swaths in the lilacs and ...
... things like " Your hair seems different than ours . Don't you think ? " So there was a murderousness to our play . We went on ram- pages around the dacha , chopping at each other with sticks and clearing swaths in the lilacs and ...
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... thing , at twenty - eight a senior tur- bine engineer . There were three secondary schools , a young peo- ple's club , festive covered markets , a two - screen cinema , and a Children's World department store . Plenty of good walking ...
... thing , at twenty - eight a senior tur- bine engineer . There were three secondary schools , a young peo- ple's club , festive covered markets , a two - screen cinema , and a Children's World department store . Plenty of good walking ...
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... thing . And once they'd done that , all their standard operat- ing procedures took them even more quickly down the road to disaster . The test was half standard operating procedure , half seat - of- the - pants initiative . Testimony ...
... thing . And once they'd done that , all their standard operat- ing procedures took them even more quickly down the road to disaster . The test was half standard operating procedure , half seat - of- the - pants initiative . Testimony ...
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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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