Girl Trouble: Stories (P.S.) - Brossura

Jones, Holly Goddard

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ISBN 10: 0061776300 ISBN 13: 9780061776304

Casa editrice: Harper Perennial, 2009

Riassunto

Examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is, in a collection that includes stories about a high school basketball coach learning that his star player is pregnant—with his child; a lonely woman reflecting on an act of violence that brought about her marriage's destruction; and more. Original. 30,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Gritty, eloquent dispatches from the heartland. . . . Jones’ hauntingly accomplished language lifts the mundane to the level of profound tragedy.” (Chicago Tribune)

“Jones writes with grace and ease, the selections adding up to a powerful sum of reflection, loss and regret.” (Publishers Weekly)

“This masterful debut dramatizes the fortitude of small-town southerners confronting situations gone terribly wrong and the shadowed boundaries of love, morality, and violence. . . . Jones’ seemingly effortless style makes the eight tales quietly powerful and achingly human.” (Booklist)

“Powerful . . . Strong, subtly nuanced.” (The News & Observer)

“Poignant and approachable-ripe for any audience. The human touch and prairie isolation of her characters are pitch perfect. . . . Jones’ prose is also sharply intellectual. With a debut as striking as Girl Trouble, Jones could very well join the tradition of America’s great Southern writers.” (New York Press)

“Girl Trouble resonates with black-coal sorrow and dark truths found in [Jones’s] native state’s darkest hollers. . . . Nothing is contrived; every story is steeped in reality, and clarity comes with a price.” (The Nashville Scene)

“Jones exposes a world that is darkly seductive.” (Oxford American)

“Jones’ sparkling debut collection zeroes in on lonely searching souls making do in a quiet Kentucky town.” (People)

“Holly Goddard Jones is blessed with wisdom beyond her years, a gimlet eye, and an enviable literary talent; her debut collection, GIRL TROUBLE, is a fierce and exhilarating achievement.” (Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children)

“No politician should ever again use the phrase ‘The American People’ without reading this book, preferably twice, so that they understand at last just who the hell they’re talking about. Holly Goddard Jones has a voice as expansive, complex, and beautiful as the country itself.” (Joshua Ferris, author of Then We Came to the End)

L'autore:

Holly Goddard Jones's stories have appeared in New Stories from the South, Best American Mystery Stories, and various literary journals. She is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and the winner of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award.

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• Editore: Harper Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061776300
• ISBN 13: 9780061776304
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 368