The Virginity of Famous Men
Autor Christine Sneeden Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 noi 2016
The Virginity of Famous Men, award-winning story writer Christine Sneed's deeply perceptive collection on the human condition, features protagonists attempting to make peace with the choices--both personal and professional--they have so far made. In "The Prettiest Girls," a location scout for a Hollywood film studio falls in love with a young Mexican woman who is more in love with the idea of stardom than with this older American man who takes her with him back to California. "Clear Conscience" focuses on the themes of family loyalty, divorce, motherhood, and whether "doing the right thing" is, in fact, always the right thing to do. In "Beach Vacation," a mother realizes that her popular and coddled teenage son has become someone she has difficulty relating to, let alone loving with the same maternal fervor that once was second nature to her. The title story, "The Virginity of Famous Men," explores family and fortune.
Long intrigued by love and loneliness, Sneed leads readers through emotional landscapes both familiar and uncharted. These probing stories are explorations of the compassionate and passionate impulses that are inherent in--and often the source of--both abiding joy and serious distress in every human life.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781620406953
ISBN-10: 1620406950
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1620406950
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Caracteristici
A
new
collection
of
brilliant
stories
from
an
award-winning
writer:Christine
Sneed's
first
collection,Portraits
of
a
Few
of
the
People
I've
Made
Cry,
won
the
Grace
Paley
Prize
for
Short
Fiction
andPloughshares'John
C.
Zacharis
First
Book
Award.
It
was
a
Los
Angeles
Times
Book
Prize
finalist
and
was
named
the
Chicago
Writers
Association
2011
Book
of
the
Year
and
one
of
the
seven
best
books
of
the
year
byTime
Out
Chicago.
Her
stories
have
appeared
inBest
American
Short
StoriesandPEN/O.
Henry
Prize
Stories,
as
well
as
numerous
journals.
Notă biografică
Christine
Sneedis
also
the
author
of
the
novelsParis,
He
SaidandLittle
Known
Facts,
and
the
story
collectionPortraits
of
a
Few
of
the
People
I've
Made
Cry.
She
received
the
Grace
Paley
Prize
for
Short
Fiction,Ploughshares'
Zacharis
First
Book
Award,
the
Chicago
Writers
Association's
Book
of
the
Year
Award,
and
the
Society
of
Midland
Authors
Award
for
Best
Adult
Fiction
of
2013.
Her
stories
have
appeared
inThe
Best
American
Short
Stories,
The
O.
Henry
Prize
Stories,and
elsewhere.
Recenzii
Snared
by
each
of
the
collection's
tragic,
comic,
quirky
and/or
quotidian
lives
.
.
.
the
reader
tears
through
page
after
page
and
by
the
end
feels
not
only
bereft
but
ravenous,
hungry
for
more
.
.
.
Fiercely
meditative
and
unnerving
short
fiction.
These marvelously precise and lucid stories, so rich in psychological insights, so propulsive, switch from funny to wrenching in a heartbeat. Like Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Edith Pearlman, Sneed, as attuned to our buzzing-hive world as she is, writes timeless stories richly human in their empathy and wit, grace, and toughness.
This is an absolute gem of a collection, each perfectly formed story encompasses a world.
Sneed's strength is her characters; we often find them in the middle of a choice. It feels refreshing. These are not the aimless, wondering, interior characters we dread in short fiction. The active nature of every one of Sneed's people is that they want something, and we know what that something is. They desire to get away, dissolve into someone else, be saved, and ultimately not be on their own. We empathize with their desires, and root for--and sometimes fear for--the decisions they make.
Readers will find themselves invested in these worlds and lives. Tenderly portrayed and sharply observed. A rich collection.
[An] impressive and expansive story collection . . . From the rich and famous to the down and out, Sneed's characters are exposed by life's twists and turns, their inner struggles laid bare as they seek connection to the people they love most.
Sneed is as much heir to John O'Hara and John Cheever as to . . . Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant.
Sneed is excellent on the poetry of glamour, how it holds up well from a distance and dissolves on approach.
Christine Sneed's smart and sexy new short story collection,The Virginity of Famous Men. . . focuses less on the pursuit of sex and love than on the more complicated matter of love's fallout . . . It's that emotional heft that interests Sneed, and she mines it to great effect and with incredibly precise prose.
Compulsively readable. Sneed writes like a house afire, like a friend who is bursting with stories to share--and the impact is unforgettable.
Only the wild imagination of Christine Sneed could have invented these funny, intimate, and exceptionally moving stories.
With this brilliant new collection, Christine Sneed clinches her place among the greatest writers of her generation. These hilarious, heartbreaking, perfect stories will charm you, seduce you, change the way you see the world.
Rich and mesmerizing. Here is love caught in the headlights. Here is a master of the short story form.
Some of the most emotionally-rich writing I've read in quite some time. Sneed goes for the heart, the head, and, quite often, the funny bone.
The Virginity of Famous Mensimmers with longing and desire. Sneed's scarred protagonists--magically, incredibly--show us a potential for connection that resonates long after each story's close.
Who we fall in love with, and why, has always fascinated Christine Sneed. In her new collection of stories,The Virginity of Famous Men, she also delves into why some of us are so drawn to fame--and how much we are willing to give up for a little bit of it.
Awakenings, sudden good luck or tragedy drive characters in these stories to bury iterations of themselves and reinvent with new pursuits, new ways of seeing, new bonds.
The Virginity of Famous Menis a stunning collection. The lives in these 13 stories are exquisitely imagined, utterly convincing . . . listened to carefully by Christine Sneed's perfect ear.
Sneed's immersive stories contain such full worlds that they almost feel like distilled novels . . . [Her] sophisticated wit and emotional acuity . . . keep these stories vibrant.
[The Virginity of Men] imparts a lifetime of wisdom on the difficulties of love.
Three stories in and you are mesmerised by Sneed's confident yet intimate voice and don't want to put the book down till you have read the lot. There is something compelling about her inside track on affairs of the heart . . . She describes loss (and thereby all life) and makes it bearable in myriad ways. An absolute treat.
These marvelously precise and lucid stories, so rich in psychological insights, so propulsive, switch from funny to wrenching in a heartbeat. Like Ann Beattie, Amy Hempel, and Edith Pearlman, Sneed, as attuned to our buzzing-hive world as she is, writes timeless stories richly human in their empathy and wit, grace, and toughness.
This is an absolute gem of a collection, each perfectly formed story encompasses a world.
Sneed's strength is her characters; we often find them in the middle of a choice. It feels refreshing. These are not the aimless, wondering, interior characters we dread in short fiction. The active nature of every one of Sneed's people is that they want something, and we know what that something is. They desire to get away, dissolve into someone else, be saved, and ultimately not be on their own. We empathize with their desires, and root for--and sometimes fear for--the decisions they make.
Readers will find themselves invested in these worlds and lives. Tenderly portrayed and sharply observed. A rich collection.
[An] impressive and expansive story collection . . . From the rich and famous to the down and out, Sneed's characters are exposed by life's twists and turns, their inner struggles laid bare as they seek connection to the people they love most.
Sneed is as much heir to John O'Hara and John Cheever as to . . . Alice Munro and Mavis Gallant.
Sneed is excellent on the poetry of glamour, how it holds up well from a distance and dissolves on approach.
Christine Sneed's smart and sexy new short story collection,The Virginity of Famous Men. . . focuses less on the pursuit of sex and love than on the more complicated matter of love's fallout . . . It's that emotional heft that interests Sneed, and she mines it to great effect and with incredibly precise prose.
Compulsively readable. Sneed writes like a house afire, like a friend who is bursting with stories to share--and the impact is unforgettable.
Only the wild imagination of Christine Sneed could have invented these funny, intimate, and exceptionally moving stories.
With this brilliant new collection, Christine Sneed clinches her place among the greatest writers of her generation. These hilarious, heartbreaking, perfect stories will charm you, seduce you, change the way you see the world.
Rich and mesmerizing. Here is love caught in the headlights. Here is a master of the short story form.
Some of the most emotionally-rich writing I've read in quite some time. Sneed goes for the heart, the head, and, quite often, the funny bone.
The Virginity of Famous Mensimmers with longing and desire. Sneed's scarred protagonists--magically, incredibly--show us a potential for connection that resonates long after each story's close.
Who we fall in love with, and why, has always fascinated Christine Sneed. In her new collection of stories,The Virginity of Famous Men, she also delves into why some of us are so drawn to fame--and how much we are willing to give up for a little bit of it.
Awakenings, sudden good luck or tragedy drive characters in these stories to bury iterations of themselves and reinvent with new pursuits, new ways of seeing, new bonds.
The Virginity of Famous Menis a stunning collection. The lives in these 13 stories are exquisitely imagined, utterly convincing . . . listened to carefully by Christine Sneed's perfect ear.
Sneed's immersive stories contain such full worlds that they almost feel like distilled novels . . . [Her] sophisticated wit and emotional acuity . . . keep these stories vibrant.
[The Virginity of Men] imparts a lifetime of wisdom on the difficulties of love.
Three stories in and you are mesmerised by Sneed's confident yet intimate voice and don't want to put the book down till you have read the lot. There is something compelling about her inside track on affairs of the heart . . . She describes loss (and thereby all life) and makes it bearable in myriad ways. An absolute treat.