A Simplified Map of the Real World: The Renata Stories - Brossura

Allred, Stevan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0988265729 ISBN 13: 9780988265721

Casa editrice: Forest Avenue Press, 2013

Riassunto

Fifteen linked stories chart a true course through the lives of families, farmers, loggers, former classmates, and the occasional stripper. In the richly imagined town of Renata, Oregon, a man watches his neighbor's big-screen TV through binoculars. An errant son paints himself silver. Mysterious electrical humming emanates from an enormous barn. In A Simplified Map of the Real World, intimate boundaries are loosened by divorce and death in a rural community where even an old pickle crock has an unsettling history-and high above the strife and the hope and the often hilarious, geese seek the perfect tailwind. Stevan Allred's stunning debut deftly navigates the stubborn geography of the human heart.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Author Stevan Allred lives and writes in a house in the woods halfway between Fisher's Mill and Viola, in rural Clackamas County, outside of Portland, Oregon. He is the editor of Dixon Ticonderoga, a zine that explores the intimate relationship between divorce and pencils. He teaches writing at the Pinewood Table.

Illustrator Laurie Paus has a bachelor's degree in English from the University of Washington. Over the years she has taken drawing and painting classes from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and Oregon College of Arts and Crafts, and recently, she has been studying sculpture at The Gage Academy of Art. She lives on the shores of Lake Union and works as a bookseller at The Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle.

Dalla quarta di copertina

Funny, sensual, piercing, honest, witty, and a braided woven webbed stitch of stories and people unlike anything I ever read. It catches something deep and true about the brave and nutty shaggy defiant grace of this place. Fun to read and funner to recommend.
Brian Doyle, author of Mink River

You dont need to be from a small Oregon town to recognize Stevan Allreds characters. They are your mother, your father, your cousin Cathy. And probably more than youd like to admit, they even feel a bit like you.A Simplified Map of the Real World is a highly-skilled collection of interwoven stories, surprising in its various styles and voices. But the real surprise is how close Stevan Allred gets to the beating heart of what it means to be human. Petty, profane, sacred, scared, hilarious. Were all in this book. And thats quite a triumph.
Tom Spanbauer, author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon

Stevan Allreds characters are delightfully wrong-headed. They make questionable choicessometimes terrible onesand get themselves into all kinds of trouble. But the worse their mistakes, the more I care for them, because beyond their difficulties what Allred gives them is the essential dignity of longing. No matter how misguided, all strive toward some ideal, and no matter what mess they make of their circumstances, they end up more alive for having given themselves over to desire. To read their stories is to journey through passions that transcend the confinements of small town lifeand its a journey thats by turns funny, surprising, and heartbreaking.
Scott Nadelson, author of The Next Scott Nadelson

Dal risvolto di copertina interno

Fifteen linked stories chart a true course through the lives of families, farmers, loggers, former classmates, and the occasional stripper. In the richly imagined town of Renata, Oregon, a man watches his neighbor’s big-screen TV through binoculars. An errant son paints himself silver. Mysterious electrical humming emanates from an enormous barn. A secret abortion from three decades ago gets a public airing. In A Simplified Map of the Real World, intimate boundaries are loosened by divorce and death in a rural community where even an old pickle crock has an unsettling history—and high above the strife and the hope and the often hilarious, geese seek the perfect tailwind. Stevan Allred’s stunning debut deftly navigates the stubborn geography of the human heart.

Featuring a Faulknerian map and hand-drawn "story trees" that map the characters' connections.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Forest Avenue Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0988265729
• ISBN 13: 9780988265721
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Disegnatore: Paus Laurie
• Numero di pagine: 294
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile