- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Picador USA (November 2002)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0312307314
- ISBN-13: 978-0312307318
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,8 x 14 x 1,6 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.8 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (8 Kundenrezensionen)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 238.067 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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From Booklist
If one were to diagram Canin's fictional form, it would have to be of classical proportions: clean, noble, and golden. His latest book presents us with four beautifully told long short stories. In each, a man muses over his past and realizes how little control he has had over pivotal moments in his life. "Accountant" is a gripping variation on the turtle and the hare fable. The turtle, and narrator, is Abba Roth, a serious student turned dutiful accountant. The hare is Eugene Peters, Roth's academically disinclined boyhood friend who was able to parlay his enthusiasm for auto mechanics into a hugely lucrative business. Now solidly middle-aged, they have a showdown of sorts at a fantasy baseball camp overseen by none other than the great Willie Mays. As Roth surprises everyone with his able performance on the field and incredible awkwardness everywhere else, he finally gives into his deeply buried "impulse for uproar and disorder." The title story also tells the tale of a methodical, even fussy man brought up short by the bold, unscrupulous acts of richer and more powerful figures. In each story, Canin proves himself adept at articulating moments of profound embarrassment followed by flashes of self-knowledge that are either invigorating or demoralizing. Moving and memorable. Donna Seaman
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From Kirkus Reviews
Canin's return to short fiction should be a cause for welcome- -yet isn't, disappointingly. In four adipose, rhetorical, quite forced long stories, he continues--as in his unfortunate last book, the novel Blue River (1991)--to strive for ``wise'' adult tonalities. But these rich, deep voices all but neglect the small flashes of humaneness and helpless knowledge that made Canin's debut collection, Emperor of the Air (1988), remarkable--turning him into a writer who builds high, fussy, false ceilings without walls to support them. Upon an unstartling theme--that we repeat as adults what we do as children- -each story here plays out a variation. In the baldest, the title piece, a powerful captain of industry still is moved to impress his elderly prep-school teacher with his temerity and moral sleaze. In ``Accountant,'' an old friend's later-life success throws a careful man to the edge of his rectitude. In ``City of Broken Hearts,'' a middle-aged father learns something about trust and love from his college-aged son. And in ``Batorsag and Szerelem,'' a boy observes in his elder genius brother what seem like signs of schizophrenia but are instead sexual misapprehensions. It's here that the book is most ragged but also most genuine-seeming: the younger boy has available to him an X-raying psychology no grown-up character in Canin ever does (Canin must be the ultimate ``kid-brother'' writer)--and it's frustrating that this quicksilver perceptiveness is given so little play in the stories, which are bulked-up instead with grown-up characters that are invariably slow, large, and overwide. The stories thus always seem to be wearing their parent's clothes--an effect that reaches into the prose itself, a simulacrum of Cheeverian and Peter Tayloresque modulation that in Canin's hands is just pomp and circumstance. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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Format:Taschenbuch
This writer was recommended to me by a writing coach. I started with The Palace Thief and can't wait to read the rest of Ethan's books. He creates unforgettable characters, fully realized and interesting, in situations that we can all identify with. I usually read non-fiction, but this is one writer who has given me a good reason to go back to well-written fiction. I'm glad to see that the art of the carefully chosen word is not forgotten.
Format:Taschenbuch
Excellent collection of thought-provoking stories.
Format:Taschenbuch
It was fantastic, the fire was ignited when the statement of confused greed (can greed be confused?)by the accountant was uttered. He said IT WAS NO LONGER IN OUR BEST INTEREST, that is to do services to his friend's company. I think about this statement for a long time. Finally I must admit that YES, IT WAS NO LONGER IN OUR BEST INTEREST!
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Brilliant.
The last three pages of Batorsag and Szerelem are sheer literary perfection. Not since Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily" have I been rendered breathless by an author's work. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 17. Juli 1999 von fantaastik@hotmail.com
I LOVED The Palace Thief!
I really liked this book. I've read the Palace Thief 20 times and I love it every time. So, I'm making copies with the Xerox machine at work and giving them out to students. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 12. November 1998 veröffentlicht
How does Ethan Canin know?
How does Ethan Canin know so much? Not just facts, although there are plenty in here (the title story reveals a stunning familiarity with ancient civilizations). Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Dezember 1997 veröffentlicht
Almost Great
Great stories, but I wanted more each time. Still, it was very enjoyable.
Am 4. Dezember 1997 veröffentlicht
THE ACCOUNTANT MEETS WILLIE MAYS AND QUESTIONS HIS LIFE
I ESPECIALLY ENJOYED THE SHORT STORY "THE ACCOUNTANT" ABOUT
A MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF MODERATELY SUCCESSFUL LIVING A
METHODICAL LIFE. Lesen Sie weiter...
A MAN WHO CONSIDERS HIMSELF MODERATELY SUCCESSFUL LIVING A
METHODICAL LIFE. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Januar 1997 veröffentlicht
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