- Taschenbuch: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: Anchor; Auflage: Anchor Books. (17. August 1999)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0385492162
- ISBN-13: 978-0385492164
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,3 x 13,3 x 1,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (51 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 138.813 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In conventional fiction, war heroes return home minus an arm or a leg--or, to take Hemingway's worst-case scenario, the family jewels. In Aimee Bender's deeply unconventional collection, however, an even more suggestive body part goes AWOL: "Steve returned from the war without his lips." The army doctors have temporarily replaced them with a plastic disc, which impairs his speech. Luckily, this doesn't prevent him and his wife from engaging in some slightly surrealistic sexual maneuvers: "That night in bed, he grazed the disc over her raised nipples like a UFO and the plastic was cool on her skin. It felt like they were in college and toying with desk items as sexual objects."
That same combo--sex and off-kilter surrealism--provides Bender with her modus operandi. In "Call My Name," for example, a young heiress tails a stranger back to his apartment, gets her dress sliced off, and then consents to be trussed to a chair while he watches a TV documentary about Mozart. "Quiet Please" features a libidinous librarian who takes on all, uh, comers in the back room. Bender isn't, it should be said, simply a purveyor of French postcards. Her prose is exquisitely shaped, and its singsong rhythms suggest something out of a wised-up, whacked-out fairy tale. Indeed, if the Brothers Grimm had been a little more attuned to the pleasure principle, their fables might have boasted at least a family resemblance to Aimee Bender's. --James Marcus -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Sixteen stories that, like contemporary fairy tales, disclose those bittersweet truths about life that hide in unlikely and grotesque disguises. A writer engaged as much with the larger world as with the personal, Bender writes in stylish prose about men and women who want to live to the fullest but often find bizarre and unexpected obstacles in their way--obstacles that, while suggesting the tragic nature of existence, are often darkly comic also: In Call My Name, a wealthy young woman spends an afternoon auditioning men only to find that the man she chooses prefers to watch television; in Marzipan, a daughter's mourning is discomposed when her mother comes back from the dead to share the leftover cake the family has kept in the freezer; and The Rememberer, a man whos worried that people think too much, experiences reverse evolution and finally becomes a salamander that his young lover reluctantly releases into the ocean. Meanwhile, the title piece tells of a father who forces his young daughter to wear a stone backpack that will make her sensitive to suffering; her sensitivity, however, becomes so overwhelming that she envies a girl whose flammable skirt caught on fire, because, however briefly, her passion had arrived and, unlike the narrator, she could feel freely. In other standouts, a woman falls in love with a robber who steals rings hidden in kitchen canisters from a rich opera-going householder (The Ring); a grieving librarian seduces her male patrons (Quiet Please); and a young woman finds it hard to love her wounded husband, whos come back from war without his lips (What You Left in the Ditch). A notable debut by a writer who sees not only the spider but also the shining filaments that trap us. (First serial to Granta, GQ, and Story) -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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I got this book of short stories on the recommendation of a book shop owner when I had no attention span for novels. At times you wonder, 'Am I really reading a story about a Mermaid and a dwarf in high school?" but at other times you recognize yourself in her characters. Bender knows how to laugh at herself and make you laugh along with her. This is the kind of book that makes you want to make all the wacky vignettes of your life into short stories. If only you had the talent of Aimee Bender.
Format:Taschenbuch
I LOVED this book. The strange stories and quirky characters may throw many people off though. I found it best to read one or two stories at a time and take a day to ABSORB them. Their oddness makes a kind of sense. Read it. Think about it. DELIGHTFUL!
Format:Taschenbuch
bender's book *is* very original -- from the story about a man with no lips to lines like "my lover is experiencing reverse evolution. i tell no one. i don't know how it happened, only that one day he was my lover and the next he was some kind of ape. it's been a month and now he's a sea turtle." bender's wit and intellignce are apparent throughout the book. however, the book is weighted down by its incredible oddness - a characteristic which makes it hard for the reader to ever relate to anything bender says.
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A great debut
This collection of short stories heralds the arrival of truly a new voice in fiction. Aimee Bender does for short stories what Elvis did for music: gave it a face, a look, a vibe. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Mai 2000 veröffentlicht
junk
There were two stories worth reading in this collection. Most of the others are filler and seem thrown together to create a "book".
Am 1. April 2000 veröffentlicht
quite great.
found this to be a rare treasure in the shelves of contemporary lit.. which seem -so- drab. maybe there is hope.
Veröffentlicht am 20. März 2000 von dolesome
stunning
I read this in one day, struggling to ration myself, but failing. It's absolutley amazing work, so haunting, peculiar and thought provoking. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 11. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
book club exclamation
what a book! what a book! what a hook! what a hook
Am 11. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
fire is not the central theme sumtimes its dumb to expect
I thought this book was gonna be about a girl who had this horrible expericne with a fire. a whole story about a girl and her bad deal with fire. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 8. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Fiery Flammable Skirt
Intensely strange and wonderful stories.
Just look at all the reviews posted here. One star or five stars. I think that says it all.
To thrill or offend. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 28. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Less than desirable
Imaginative, yet lacked in really drawing me in. Overly frenetic at times. Someone said "symbolic"? You're kidding, right? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Disappointing
I love experimental literature, literature that takes risks, but Bender's stories read more like writing exercises than stories. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Dezember 1999 veröffentlicht
Fables of loss and incompleteness-metaphorically brilliant
I don't recall reading so many disparate reviews of a book. Over the top, bizarre, deliberately flamboyant? Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 16. November 1999 veröffentlicht
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