Orientation: And Other Stories
Autor Daniel Orozcoen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 apr 2012
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Breakfast's boiled egg, the overhead hum of fluorescent lights, the midmorning coffee break daily routines keep the world running. But when people are pushed by a coworker's taunt, a face-to-face encounter with a woman in free fall from a bridge cracks appear, revealing alienation, casual cruelty, madness, and above all a simultaneous hunger for and fear of the unknown.
Daniel Orozco leads the reader through the hidden lives and moral philosophies of bridge painters, men housebound by obesity, office temps, and warehouse workers. He reveals the secret pleasures of late-night supermarket trips for cookie binges, exceptional data entry, and an exiled dictator's occasional piss on the U.S. embassy. A love affair blooms between two officers in the impartially worded pages of a police blotter; a new employee's first-day office tour includes descriptions of other workers' most private thoughts and actions; during an earthquake, the consciousness of the entire state of California shakes free for examination.
"Orientation "introduces a writer at the height of his powers, whose work surely invites us to reassess the landscape of American fiction.
"Orientation" is a Kirkus Reviews Best of 2011 Short Story Collections title."
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0865478716
Pagini: 162
Dimensiuni: 141 x 210 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.16 kg
Editura: Faber and Faber
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Recenzii
"The moment you begin this incomparable debut, you'll discover why Daniel Orozco's fans have been shouting his praises for years. In these wildly original stories, single details reveal whole human lives; the impersonal dissolves seamlessly into the personal; the geological transforms into the psychological; and the short story itself breaks open to reveal previously unimagined possibility. This may be Orozco's first collection, but he's nothing short of a master." --Julie Orringer, author of "The Invisible Bridge" and "How to Breathe Underwater"""
""Orientation" is a wonderful collection of stories. 'Somoza's Dream' alone is worth the price of the ticket. But that's not fair, because the same could be said of 'Officers Weep, ' 'Shakers, ' and every single story in this stunning piece of literary art." --David Means, author of "The Spot"
""Orientation" is a seriously good book--beautifully written, rigorous, funny, brokenhearted, smart, and withouti
"Inspired . . . acidly comic . . . virtuosic." --Ted Weesner, "The Boston Globe"
"'Temporary Stories, ' the eighth entry in Daniel Orozco's debut collection, "Orientation" (Faber and Faber), is a gem and a killer. Not since Henry James's 'In the Cage' has a writer so perfectly captured the anxieties of interacting with the public for pay. Somehow, Orozco manages to convey James's psychological acuity with one-tenth of his clauses, mingling it with Steven Millhauser's sense of lunatic joy." --Eugenia Williamson, "The Boston Phoenix"
"Orozco's long-anticipated collection, "Orientation and Other Stories," holds a cracked Barthelme-meets-Kafka-esque mirror to this twenty-first-century American life." --Megan O'Grady, "Vogue"
"[Orozco's] cracked characters grip like Krazy Glue." --Lisa Shea, "Elle"
"These nine darkly funny, profoundly compassionate stories take as their subject the loneliness particular to contemporary culture . . . 'You can't know anybody, not really, note
Premii
- Saroyan Writing Prize Winner, 2012