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Russell Wangersky

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Whirl Away (2012) 45 eksemplarer
Walt (2016) 39 eksemplarer
The Hour of Bad Decisions (2006) 18 eksemplarer
The Glass Harmonica (2010) 12 eksemplarer
The Path of Most Resistance (2017) 10 eksemplarer
Same Ground (2022) 6 eksemplarer
Les courses (French Edition) (2016) 1 eksemplar

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Well written short stories that contain characters who seem to live on the edge. The characters are those who seem to have one foot over the abyss, and because life isn't working as it should, many are ready to take the final step.

An award-winning Canadian book, I liked some of the stories and had empathy, while other characters were near-do-wells with whom I couldn't relate.
 
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Whisper1 | 7 andre anmeldelser | Mar 5, 2018 |
A brutally honest memoir about the impact fire fighting has had on Mr. Wangersky's life -- his marriage and his mental health. Maybe a bit repetitive, but it really brought home the message of what our first responders deal with -- on the job and in their psyches.
½
 
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LynnB | 1 anden anmeldelse | Jun 14, 2017 |
(Fiction, Short Stories, Atlantic Canadian)

From Amazon: “From the caretaker of a prairie amusement park to the lone occupant of a collapsing Newfoundland town, from a travelling sports drink marketer with a pressing need to get off the road to an elevator inspector who finds himself losing his marriage while sensuously burying himself in the tastes and smells of the kitchen, these are people who spin wildly out of control, finding themselves in a new and different world.”

Whirl Away was the winner of the 2013 Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, was shortlisted for the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize, and was a finalist for the 2012 BMO Winterset Award.

I highly recommend this collection.

4½ stars
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½
 
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ParadisePorch | 7 andre anmeldelser | Dec 5, 2016 |
(Literary fiction, Atlantic Canadian)

Set in St. John’s Newfoundland where the author lives and works as editor and columnist for The Telegram, The Glass Harmonica is the story of a neighbourhood. In the present, a man witnesses his neighbour shot and killed by a pizza delivery person, but the back story is woven in pieces by various neighbours, back and forth over the course of 40 years. Wangersky has been called a craftsman storyteller. I concur.

This book won 2010 BMO Winterset Award for the outstanding literary work in any genre by a Newfoundlander or Labradorian.

Read this if: you’ve ever walked down your street and wondered what goes on behind closed doors
4½ stars
… (mere)
½
 
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ParadisePorch | Dec 5, 2016 |

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Medlemmer
158
Popularitet
#133,026
Vurdering
3.8
Anmeldelser
15
ISBN
24
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