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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... took to cupping Mikhail's fist with my palms when he was thumb - sucking , as though I were praying . It brought us nose to nose and made me shudder with an enraged tender- ness . Petya sucked his thumb as well , interested . That Warm ...
... took to cupping Mikhail's fist with my palms when he was thumb - sucking , as though I were praying . It brought us nose to nose and made me shudder with an enraged tender- ness . Petya sucked his thumb as well , interested . That Warm ...
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... 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 , perhaps , to 8 Like You'd Understand , Anyway.
... 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 , perhaps , to 8 Like You'd Understand , Anyway.
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... 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 Vanguard How much difference could an individual bureaucrat really make in our ...
... 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 Vanguard How much difference could an individual bureaucrat really make in our ...
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... took a purely functional interest in whomever I was talk- ing to . Father had overheard him once when we were adults and had laughed approvingly . " Someone's going to have to look after Petya , " he said , his eyes closed , some ...
... took a purely functional interest in whomever I was talk- ing to . Father had overheard him once when we were adults and had laughed approvingly . " Someone's going to have to look after Petya , " he said , his eyes closed , some ...
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... took out from the library . It has a giant scorpion on the cover , and you have to take something out and do a report , every week . It always takes forever to find something that's even halfway interesting . I get good grades , which ...
... took out from the library . It has a giant scorpion on the cover , and you have to take something out and do a report , every week . It always takes forever to find something that's even halfway interesting . I get good grades , which ...
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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