Home Schooling - Softcover

Windley, Carol

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802144535 ISBN 13: 9780802144539

Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press, 2010

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"[In Home Schooling], language is wielded like a slender blade . . . swiftly piercing a perception and pinning it to the page. . . . These stories have their own uncanny atmosphere, remote yet familiar, cloaked in fog banks and redolent of deep woods. . . . [Windley] artfully chills us to the bone." -- Amanda Heller "Windley's writing is calm and at times hypnotic, and her prose rhythms paint pictures of their own. . . . Startlingly lovely." -- Moira MacDonald "[Like] Henry James . . . Windley pays scrupulous attention to small, consequential gestures, to a sense of the uncanny that marks the proximity of characters to places and things, and as much to what goes unsaid as to what's spoken. . . . The opening lines of the astonishing title story are a high-wire act of narrative prestidigitation, mimicking the fault lines of memory and the compensatory gift of reinvention. . . . . [A] book of pure magic." -- Lisa Shea "The families in [this] remarkable story collection are as unsettled and moody as the wind-blasted landscape that shelters and confounds them. . . . A haunting book that deserves our attention." -- Connie Ogle "Language is wielded like a slender blade in these stories by the Canadian author Carol Windley, swiftly piercing a perception and pinning it to the page. . . . Set on Vancouver Island and the mainland of the Pacific Northwest, these stories have their own uncanny atmosphere, remote yet familiar, cloaked in fogbanks and redolent of deep woods. . . . In the shattering piece that opens the collection, a child observes a crime occurring in excruciating slow motion but does nothing to stop it because she cannot assemble the reality of what she has seen, a nightmare scenario that artfully chills us to the bone."--"Boston Globe" "The families in Carol Windley's remarkable story collection are as unsettled and moody as the wind-blasted landscape that shelters and confounds them. . . . [Windley] is deeply in tune with her characters, their dilemmas, their petulance, and the peculiar grace that allows them to accept, even sometimes to applaud, how far they've come. . . . Windley can create an almost tactile atmosphere of uncertainty and dread. . . . Our futures can be as wild and unpredictable as the waves crashing in from the Pacific, Windley tells us. Our destinies are uncertain despite our pasts, as our ties to other people steer a course of surprise and, sometimes, eventual contentment. . . . A haunting book that deserves our attention."--"The Miami Herald " "[An] elegant collection . . . Windley's writing is calm and at times hypnotic, and her prose rhythms paint pictures of their own; she knows how to create the restful quiet of gentle waves breaking on a beach. And her images, often occurring in the context of dreams, can be startlingly lovely."--"The Seattle Times" "Hints of Henry James inform the eight stories in Canadian writer Carol Windley's American debut, "Home Schooling." Like that earlier master, Windley pays scrupulous attention to small, consequential gestures, to a sense of the uncanny that marks the proximity of characters to places a

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Carol Windley's mesmerizing collection, Home Schooling, introduced an American audience to a mature, masterful storyteller whose writing has a unique power, a perfect combination of delicacy, intensity, and fearless imagination (Alice Munro). Set in the temperate rain forests of Vancouver Island and the vibrant cities of the Pacific Northwest, the stories in Home Schooling uncover the hidden freight of families as they dissolve and reform in new and startling configurations: ghosts appear, the past intrudes and overwhelms the present, familiar terrain takes on a hostile aspect, and happiness often depends on unlikely alliances.

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• Verlag: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0802144535
• ISBN 13: 9780802144539
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 219