Heart Attack Watch
Autor Alyson Fosteren Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 iul 2016
Heart Attack Watch is built around disasters large and small--those we know enough to fear but for which we can never prepare. The blackout. The car crash. The diagnosis. In these moments of reckoning, Alyson Foster's characters grow achingly alive. There is Julia, the dreamy school-bus driver of "The Theory of Clouds" whose cohabitation with her partner, Danae, long unremarked-on in their factory town, becomes an issue when a group of environmental scientists arrive, galvanizing the community's hatred and suspicion. There is Nina, the scrappy, home-schooled girl in "The Place of the Holy," who helps her mother care for the battered women who arrive at their door--and for whom the arrival of a new male helper is the greatest threat. Jane, the recent college dropout in the titular story, ponders the reaches of outer space and the limits of her own brain from atop a lifeguard chair during the eerie, early-morning hours at the swimming pool, trying to ward off the moment she might need to act.
Alyson Foster is a writer of fierce lucidity, and Heart Attack Watch shows her at the peak of her craft.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1620405431
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Recenzii
Opening this book is like holding your hand over a hot stove. My advice? Touch the stove. These stories will mark you with their power and verve and grace.
These stories go up like tinder, sparked by seemingly small incidents that quickly turn to conflagration. Blending sudden violence with moments of surprising beauty, Foster's stories are gripping, strange, quietly haunting. Foster has a keen eye for the illuminating oddities of character and contemporary culture: from a sand castle contest on the shores of Lake Superior to a study of clouds, from early-bird swims for the elderly to fine points of astronaut life. Peopled by a rich array of characters, these stories dare to walk up to the edge of tragedy and look straight down; they will burn themselves into your mind and heart.
Heart Attack Watchcontains some of the most beautiful stories I have ever read. Alyson Foster's writing is a study in marvelous contradictions, at once luminous and sharp, ethereal and grounded, lyrical and brash. I loved this book, and you will, too.
Sharp, unsentimental descriptions of . . . difficult situations will keep readers on their toes throughout Foster's astute collection.
Foster explores people and relationships on the razor's edge . . . [with a] masterful use of tension and language. These short stories are brief windows opening into private moments of hope, pain, and struggle . . . A heavy-hitting emotional exploration of the ways lives can change in single moments.
A nuanced story collection depicting varied characters struggling with the complications of their circumstances, emotions, and misperceptions . . . standout . . . sublime . . . . Foster's seven tales particularly shine when her characters realize the inevitability of their everyday truths.
Alyson Foster's impressive short story collectionHeart Attack Watchexamines the pivotal moments where lives change.
Exhilarating . . . Each brief story leads the reader into personal moments of hope, pain and struggle.