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In Envy Country de Joan Frank

In Envy Country: Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction

Autor Joan Frank
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 ian 2010

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Set in Paris, California, Italy, and Spain, Joan Frank's second story collection explores the uncertainties and triumphs of women and men in and out of love and marriage, at varying ages and stages of contemporary American life. By turns wry, pained, and amused, In Envy Countryinvestigates those small, complex truths that gain clarity with time and distance.
"Joan Frank shows us ourselves. . . . Meticulously observed, with sentences that will make you stop and go back for another look." --Ehud Havazelet, author of Bearing the Body and Like Never Before
"These stories each have a wonderful, intimate feel. . . . Written with authority and intelligence, they are layered and subtle . . . serious, and yet take us back to the sense of discovery; reading them is fun." --Elizabeth Strout, author of Olive Kitteridge and Abide with Me 
"Nothing escaps Joan Frank; her stories of not-so-innocent bystanders gleam with subtlety, intelligence, and sly wit." --Brian Morton, author of Breakable You and Starting Out in the Evening
"A worldly collection in all the best ways; a writer of unusual wit, sophistication, and psychological insight; reading these pages is a pleasure." --Margot Livesey, author of The House on Fortune Street
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780268028886
ISBN-10: 0268028885
Pagini: 186
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Ediția:1st Edition
Editura: MR – University of Notre Dame Press
Seria Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction

Recenzii

"The uneasy balance of power between male and female binds this sharp collection of stories . . . Frank works every aspect of these feminist stories with relentless energy, and readers will be sure to pay attention." --Publishers Weekly

"Bay Area writer Joan Frank's fourth work of fiction, the very readable new collection "In Envy Country," . . . offers the pleasures of a gossipy chat with an astute and clever friend. This friend also has a dark wit, a playful way with language and imagery and does not suffer fools gladly. . . . Joan Frank is a shrewd and, yes, frank observer both of people with money and people wanting it. Her sharp portraits and original way with words make these stories surprising and rewarding." --San Francisco Chronicle

"The stories in Joan Frank's collection, "In Envy Country," are bitingly ironic, provocative scenes of contemporary life, so complete that they will satisfy readers who typically grab 400-page novels. . . . these stories . . . are powerfully connected in content and tone, since each is reflected through an observing narrator, always a woman, who ponders the complexities of life around her. . . . The art of these stories is in their telling, and even in the saddest of them, Frank hits precisely the right note." --The Boston Globe  

"Literary short story lovers who admire the complex seamless architecture of a muscular sentence will find much to approve in Joan Frank's collection, In Envy Country. But the author's precise and artful prose is there to perform a duty; it's a steadfast craft for a cast of wildly mottled characters. The seas are never calm, and when they momentarily appear so, Frank reveals the outlines of what hovers below. These nine stories, on their face about what is observed, in close-up reveal that what is left undetected, undone, and unimagined is what resonates. . . ." --ForeWord Magazine 

"Reading a short story by Santa Rosa author Joan Frank is like confessing a terrible secret to your best friend. You've got to go through the dark tunnel of truth, but there's a light at the other end, promising comfort. And you know you're not alone. . . . In In Envy Country, Frank limns the intricacies of contemporary relationships--men and women in and out of love and marriage--exploring their most intimate secrets from a wry distance." --The Press Democrat

Notă biografică

Joan Frank is the author of two novels, Miss Kansas City, which won the Michigan Literary Fiction Award, and The Great Far Away, a finalist for the Northern California Book Award in Fiction, as well as a story collection, Boys Keep Being Born, a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Award. Frank's earlier books have been reviewed by the New York Times Book Review and Publisher's Weekly. She lives in Northern California.

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