portada House Parties: Stories (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Lynn Levin

Editorial

Spuyten Duyvil

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

442

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

17.8x12.7x2.8 cm

Peso

0.34 kg.

ISBN13

9781959556039

Categorías

Cuentos, historias cortas

House Parties: Stories (en Inglés)

Lynn Levin (Autor) · Spuyten Duyvil · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "House Parties: Stories (en Inglés)"

With a deft command of comic distance and abiding compassion for her characters, Lynn Levin in House Parties, her debut collection of short fiction, presents us with a broad range of characters who ardently, foolishly, and often with weird invention, relentlessly spar with their fates. Three friends hike through Yosemite in search of an awe-inspiring waterfall that may or may not exist...a girl on a high-school science trip finds herself abandoned on an island inhabited by aggressive monkeys...a lonely young rabbinical student creates and animates a female form only to see her beloved creature acquire free will...overwhelmed by surveys, an office worker rebels à la Bartleby...a couple believes that a move to a friendly and sophisticated exurban neighborhood will set the stage for happy marriage. Many of the characters in House Parties see themselves with a certain bemused humor and strive to stay self-possessed even as they struggle against the strange and undeserved things that happen to them. At other times, the characters-sometimes successfully, sometimes not-keep trying to escape the gravity of a plight they created or a problem they refuse to resolve. In observant and generous prose, Levin writes in tones that range from the wry, witty, and hilarious to the lyrical and deeply serious.