Hollander Jessica In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place 9781574415230

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Автор: Hollander Jessica
Название: In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place
ISBN: 9781574415230
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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ISBN-10: 1574415239
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 152
Вес: 0.20 кг.
Дата издания: 30.11.2013
Серия: Katherine anne porter prize in short fiction
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: Illustrations, black and white
Размер: 219 x 139 x 12
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Fiction & related items,Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: When an unwed pregnant woman is pressured to get married by her boyfriend, parents, and the entire culture around her, she sees a feverish intensity emanating from the path to domesticity, a paved path shaded by thick-trunked trees, lined with trim grass and manicured mansions, where miniature houses play mailboxes and animals play lawn ornaments and people play happiness. Jessica Hollanders debut collection exposes a culture that glorifies and disparages traditional domesticity, where peoples confusion, apathy, and anxiety about the institutions of marriage and family often drive them to self-destruction. The world in Hollanders nineteen stories appears at once familiar and vividly unsettling, with undercurrents of anger and violence attached to everyday objects and spaces: a pink room is a woman exploded, home smells of laundered clothes and gas from the grill, and the sun is so bright the sky fills with over-exposure, wilting the corners to orange, to red, to black. Here people adopt extreme and erratic behavior: hack at furniture, have affairs with high school students, fantasize about sex with monsters, laden flower bouquets with messages of hate; but these self-destructive acts and fantasies feel strangely like a form of growth or enlightenment, or at least the only form thats available to them. As characters become girlfriends, wives, husbands, and mothers, they struggle within their roles, either fighting to escape them or struggling to play them correctly, but always concerned with the loss of individuality, of being swallowed up by societys expectations and becoming a mother or a wife instead of remaining themselves. Hollanders debut collection effectively fuses the common (childhood adventures, unhappy adults) with the bizarre (a grandmother obsessed with buttons, a gym full of people refusing to wear clothes) to create an intriguing volume. . . . The details in these stories ring true and are recognizable amid the insanity. A potent work from a strong new literary voice.-Publishers Weekly starred review These are human tales of vigorously individual characters living with intensity. The authors ear for revealing dialogue and double-edged humor ground these stories in a reality worth enduring. The characters connect despite suspicion and betrayal, beyond blood, circumstance or embarrassment at their own ridiculous humanity. Each piece is powered by a deep, slow boiling jubilation in the moment-to-moment, line-by-line fact of taking breath.-Katherine Dunn, author of Geek Love and judge JESSICA HOLLANDER grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and received her BA from the University of Michigan. She holds an MFA from the University of Alabama. Her stories have appeared in over fifty journals, including The Cincinnati Review, The Journal, Quarterly West, and Web Conjunctions, and she will be anthologized in The Lineup: 25 Provocative Women Writers. She teaches at the University of Alabama.

In These Times the Home Is a Tired Place, Hollander Jessica