Описание: A BRILLIANT NEW COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES FROM THE CONSPICUOUSLY TALENTED (TIME) RIVKA GALCHEN
Winner of the Danuta Gleed Literary Award
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
Chosen as one of fifteen remarkable books by women that are shaping the way we read and write in the 21st century by the book critics of The New York Times
In one of the intensely imaginative stories in Rivka Galchens American Innovations, a young womans furniture walks out on her. In another, the narrator feels compelled to promise to deliver a takeout order that has incorrectly been phoned in to her. In a third, the petty details of a property transaction illuminate the complicated pains and loves of a family.
The tales in this groundbreaking collection are secretly in conversation with canonical stories, reimagined from the perspective of female characters. Just as Wallace Stevenss Anecdote of the Jar responds to John Keatss Ode on a Grecian Urn, Galchens The Lost Order covertly recapitulates James Thurbers The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, while The Region of Unlikeness is a smoky and playful mirror to Jorge Luis Borgess The Aleph. The title story, American Innovations, revisits Nikolai Gogols The Nose.
By turns realistic, fantastical, witty, and lyrical, these marvelously uneasy stories are deeply emotional and written in exuberant, pitch-perfect prose. Whether exploring the tensions in a mother-daughter relationship or the finer points of time travel, Galchen is a writer like none other today.
