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Indlæser... The Women Were Leaving the Men (Made in Michigan Writers Series) (Made in Michigan Writers Series)af Andy Mozina
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. Recently read Mozina's novel Contrary Motion. Read about half a dozen of the stories in this collection. Some of the stories lean toward the absurd. Several of the main characters seem not quite believable - even to themselves. Their lives somehow veered off of or never quite got on the track they expected to live. The stories portray a mixture of pathos and self-loathing - although maybe that's too strong. I do wish I had had more time to finish the collection. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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In The Women Were Leaving the Men, Andy Mozina draws readers into the everyday lives of characters who are instantly relatable but intriguingly flawed. Knocked beyond the brink by departed family members, curious obsessions, and unruly physical attributes, Mozina's characters climb and scrape their way toward intimacy, sanity, and redemption against the often-absurd odds of their lives in this unique, humorous, and poetic collection. Though Mozina's stories have been published by various literary magazines, this is his first full-length collection of short fiction. In The Women Were Leaving the Men, readers will encounter numerous haunting characters. A divorced astronaut, back from the moon, tries to rehabilitate his stroke-ridden mother. A young woman must decide whether to stay with a man she suspects of being a murderer. A son helps his mother bake a cake sculpted into the image of his runaway father. A man born with a single enormous hand can barely tell the difference between cleaning and making love. Despite their fantastic twists, every story in The Women Were Leaving the Men is rooted in emotional realism and fueled by the humor and pathos of the characters' conflicts and relationships. Readers will recognize familiar feelings in interactions between lovers, friends, and strangers, all rendered with strikingly real detail and a sense of humor. Mozina takes us deeply into his characters' complex lives so that we may more fully observe and discover the idiosyncrasies in our own. General readers and anyone interested in short fiction will enjoy this remarkable collection. No library descriptions found. |
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