Criminals
Love Stories
Autor*in: Trueblood, Valerie
Jahr: 2016
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
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- “Intense, complicated short stories about intense, complicated people . . . A seasoned, deeply knowing writer with riches to share" (Kirkus Reviews).  With her keen eye, her fabulous ear and her generous heart, Valerie Trueblood finds characters in moments of true extremity when they are united in passion, connected not only to one another but to themselves. In her stories, loveâ€"as with violence and as in real lifeâ€"erupts surprisingly, emerging out of the smooth blue surface of the mundane.  In “His Rank," an armed man enters a bar to claim the girl he understands to be his destiny only to be told she has, the weekend before, married someone else. In “Skylab," in which lovers have run away together to work medical relief in Malaysia, the young woman is reading the Koran to learn what it says about adulterers even as she waits for satellite debris to rain down on her. She’ll be punished, won’t she, for the crime of happiness? And in “The Bride of the Black Duck" a new widow falls in love with an entire complicated family in her neighborhood, with whom she’s suddenly, irrevocably plighted her troth: she is theirs, just as they are hers.  “[Trueblood’s stories] become love stories only in acts of redemption and release . . . Her work is an exercise in literary restraint and extreme empathy, her sentences sharp enough to cut but warm enough to melt." â€"The New York Times Book Review  “It’s not that all the stories here deal with romantic impulseâ€"love has many guisesâ€"but she’s at her best trying to explain our most inexplicable attractions." â€"Seattle Times
- Valerie Trueblood is the author of the novel Seven Loves, and the short story collections Search Party, Marry or Burn, and Criminals. She's been a finalist for the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award, a finalist for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, and a recipient of the B&N Discover Award. She lives in Seattle.
Titelinformationen
Titel: Criminals
Autor*in: Trueblood, Valerie
Verlag: Perseus Book Group
ISBN: 9781619027527
Kategorie: Belletristik & Unterhaltung, Romane & Erzählungen
Format: ePub
Max. Ausleihdauer: 21 Tage