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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... told me on the phone, they'd rely on their big-shot brother. I was ready to help out. We both treated Petya as though he had to be taught to swallow. “Let me do that,” we'd tell him, before he'd even commenced what he was going to ...
... told me on the phone, they'd rely on their big-shot brother. I was ready to help out. We both treated Petya as though he had to be taught to swallow. “Let me do that,” we'd tell him, before he'd even commenced what he was going to ...
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... told him , though my brothers knew I was . I was ten and imagined myself his ally . Petya was five . Mikhail was seven . Both are weeping in the photo , their hands on their thighs . Sometimes at night when our mother was still alive ...
... told him , though my brothers knew I was . I was ten and imagined myself his ally . Petya was five . Mikhail was seven . Both are weeping in the photo , their hands on their thighs . Sometimes at night when our mother was still alive ...
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... told me on the phone , they'd rely on their big - shot brother . I was ready to help out . We both treated Petya as though he had to be taught to swallow . " Let me do that , " we'd tell him , before he'd even commenced what he was ...
... told me on the phone , they'd rely on their big - shot brother . I was ready to help out . We both treated Petya as though he had to be taught to swallow . " Let me do that , " we'd tell him , before he'd even commenced what he was ...
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... told him that . ) At various congresses , I ran my concerns by my father . In response he gave me that look Mikhail called the Dick Shriveler . " Why's your dick big around him in the first place ? ” Petya once asked when he'd overheard ...
... told him that . ) At various congresses , I ran my concerns by my father . In response he gave me that look Mikhail called the Dick Shriveler . " Why's your dick big around him in the first place ? ” Petya once asked when he'd overheard ...
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... told us . Mikhail lived a large portion of his life in that state of mind in which you take a risk and deny the risk at the same time , out of rage . No one in his control room knew nearly enough , and whose fault was that ? " Akimov ...
... told us . Mikhail lived a large portion of his life in that state of mind in which you take a risk and deny the risk at the same time , out of rage . No one in his control room knew nearly enough , and whose fault was that ? " Akimov ...
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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