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*Starred Review* The eight stories in this stellar collection are almost unbearably sad. Loneliness and desperation run high in the arid suburban communities of Harty's Arizona. In "Ongchoma," Lynn has lost her passion for Italian literature and spends her evenings drinking tequila poppers and kamikazes. Her closest friend is a gay colleague with a violent boyfriend. The two distract each other with impressively witty comments and find comfort in a game of make-believe, in which he plays her construction worker-husband who takes her to Sedona on the weekends in their pop-up camper, and their life is "simple and good." In "Crossroads," Seth, who is movie-star handsome and has just enlisted in the marines, take his little brother, Wren, to a Led Zeppelin concert. Their whole complicated relationship plays out over the course of the evening as they shot-gun beers and impress each other with wise-ass remarks. Both of them come away from the evening with a renewed sense of possibility that will be completely obliterated in the coming months. Harty displays an incredibly assured sense of storytelling in his first book, grounding his stories in telling details, noble gestures, and a palpable sense of place. His stories will break your heart. Joanne Wilkinson
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“Love hurts—and Ryan Harty is here to count the ways. In these sharply observed, well-written stories, he gets below the surface of ordinary lives, where the heart can be felt. In Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona, Mr. Harty shows his gift of being smart and honest, and he reveals that looking for home in the suburbs is always a complicated search.”—Ron Carlson, author of The Speed of Light
“The desert exists as blazing limbo in Ryan Harty's Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona. Boys and women drive out of their abandoned pasts to see Phoenix glow like a revelation at the end of a highway. From Tumac to Tumacacori, along Toneleo Boulevard and Indian School Road, siblings as beautiful as movie stars go to war or disappear, heroes lose their way, and petty criminals reveal themselves in telling gestures of grace. Harty's southwestern, dark edge of suburbia characters are so believable we feel we know them. . . . Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona reveals a New West both haunted and shining, and Ryan Harty's quiet, cumulatively powerful voice, true in every detail and poignant tone, is unforgettable.“—Jayne Ann Phillips
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Suburban Southwest Wasteland
26. September 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
People often romanticize the SouthWest, imagining coyotes and endless desert and cowboys; however modernity has cut off a lot of the romance. Wal*marts, strip malls, endless bars, parking lots, concrete offices, endless cold air chilling the outdoors dot this landscape. Harty knows this and invigorates his character, develops his plots and gives people a history, an emotional depth deeper than any desert valley. I am not sure whether his one more science short story in this collection is a hit or miss-a rather Bradbury-esque story, it is off from the rest of the book. His teenage/young adule male characters are intense, brooding, lost, and not always likeable-but you won't forget them. Their is a palable sadness, a desolateness nature in his writing, it is very moody, but there is a kind of hope borne of small suburban trials and tribulations that keeps you reading.
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Real people living amidst shifting landscapes
31. Januar 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
This book contains stories with contemporary characters so life-like you might feel like emailing one or two with your thoughts. The backdrop of Arizona is a setting that is at once organic and otherworldly, like a lunar landscape. The dialogue is surprising and clear-toned. These are vivid and haunting stories.
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Bring Me Your Saddest....
11. März 2010
Format:Taschenbuch
"Bring Me Your Saddest Arizona" caught my eye for two reasons, one is the fact that it kept popping up as a recommended collection of short stories to read and two the fact that it is a award winning collection.
This collection is comprised of eight stories, ranging from 15-30 pages in length.
The stories start off very mild & somewhat slow in this collection. The first story "What Can I Tell You About My Brother? has alot of promise starting out, but didn't end with the flare I'd hoped for. The next two stories "Ongchoma" and "Between Tubac and Tumacaori" seemed to slow things down quite a bit.
However the collection picks up momentum and never looks back after the fourth story "Crossroads".
The next four stories are great, two of them outstanding stories that I would recommended for anyone to read.
"Sarah at the Palace"
"Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down" (outstanding story)
"Don't Call It Christmas"
"September" (outstanding story)
This award winning collection may not be for everyone, but it proves that Ryan Harty has a spot secured among the current top short story writers.
Other recommended short stories collections similar to this are Trash: Stories & Animal Crackers: Stories
Enjoy~
This collection is comprised of eight stories, ranging from 15-30 pages in length.
The stories start off very mild & somewhat slow in this collection. The first story "What Can I Tell You About My Brother? has alot of promise starting out, but didn't end with the flare I'd hoped for. The next two stories "Ongchoma" and "Between Tubac and Tumacaori" seemed to slow things down quite a bit.
However the collection picks up momentum and never looks back after the fourth story "Crossroads".
The next four stories are great, two of them outstanding stories that I would recommended for anyone to read.
"Sarah at the Palace"
"Why the Sky Turns Red When the Sun Goes Down" (outstanding story)
"Don't Call It Christmas"
"September" (outstanding story)
This award winning collection may not be for everyone, but it proves that Ryan Harty has a spot secured among the current top short story writers.
Other recommended short stories collections similar to this are Trash: Stories & Animal Crackers: Stories
Enjoy~
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