- Taschenbuch: 224 Seiten
- Verlag: Harper Perennial; Auflage: Perennial. (2. September 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0060520132
- ISBN-13: 978-0060520137
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 20,4 x 13,5 x 1,4 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.260.784 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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This first collection of stories since The Safety of Objects (1990) brings readers a remarkable range of dramas, with characters whose tenuous or troublingly limited connections Homes establishes with a deft compactness. In "Please Remain Calm," a husband discourses on pain and suicide relentlessly. "Wanting to be dead is as natural to me as breathing" and "I hate you," he tells his wife, afraid of risking the very different truth. In "Raft in Water, Floating," which appeared in the New Yorker, a young girl's family life in a gated community is increasingly disconnected, ineffectual, and remote, and there's little to counter it from the outside. When a boyfriend's two-handed sexual maneuvers beneath their swimsuits poolside conclude, she asks, "Do you like me for who I am?" "Do you want something to eat?" he replies. It remains for her to imagine herself beyond by way of a metamorphosing coyote woman. James O'Laughlin
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Twelve years after her debut, The Safety of Objects, Homes once again unearths the dark side of domestic life in a handful of disturbing pieces, Here, relationships and emotions are scrutinized within abnormal situations. The stories present a series of uniquely memorable characters: a woman who spies on young couples making love and who tries a bizarre method of impregnation, a shape-shifter who can transmogrify into various animal and human forms, a young boy whose idyllic summer is jolted by an accident, an anxious man who wants desperately but futilely to enjoy life, and a former President of the United States afflicted with Alzheimer's. Homes's storytelling is hypnotic, allowing the reader a peek into the exotic thoughts and worlds of people we do not normally meet in literature. Despite the oddness of the stories, readers are still able to identify with the characters. Engaging and dynamic, Homes's writing is remarkably surreal. Recommended for all fiction collections. Colleen Lougen, Mt. St. Mary Coll. Lib., Newburgh, NY
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A. M. Homes hat es geschafft Kurzgeschichten zu schreiben, die diesen Titel wirklich verdient haben. Die Geschichten die sie erzählt sind nichts für ein einfaches Lesevergnügen. Die Autorin verwirrt, entfremdet... und entwirrt den Leser letztendlich auch wieder. Sie beschreibt das Leben in außergewöhnlichen Situationen aus der Perspektive von außergewöhnlichen Menschen und nimmt debei kein Blatt vor den Mund. Den fünften Stern verliert sie nur weil sie manchmal einen Schritt zu weit geht in ihrer Ehrlichkeit, aber das ist Geschmackssache und sollte von jedem der sich entschließt dieses Buch zu lesen selbst entschieden werden.
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Dissatisfaction
19. September 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
Dissatisfaction is the emotion experienced by most of the characters in this collection, but is also, unfortunately, the most likely reader response to the work.
Homes has undoubted talent, and most of the stories start well and have interesting themes. However, she doesn't seem to know where to go with many of the pieces, and the endings uniformly pack no punch at all, rather allowing the stories to peter out into forgettableness.
The two exceptions to this trend are 'Georgica', startling if only for its premise of a woman who inseminates herself using sperm found in used condoms (!), and the outstanding title story, in which all Homes' best absurdist traits are on show. Perhaps significantly, the latter is the shortest piece in the collection.
This is not a terrible book, and is probably worth about 2.5 stars, but how anyone could give it 5 is beyond me. One is tempted to recommend that those reviewers turn to some of the undisputed masters of the short form for greater delights than can be found here.
Homes has undoubted talent, and most of the stories start well and have interesting themes. However, she doesn't seem to know where to go with many of the pieces, and the endings uniformly pack no punch at all, rather allowing the stories to peter out into forgettableness.
The two exceptions to this trend are 'Georgica', startling if only for its premise of a woman who inseminates herself using sperm found in used condoms (!), and the outstanding title story, in which all Homes' best absurdist traits are on show. Perhaps significantly, the latter is the shortest piece in the collection.
This is not a terrible book, and is probably worth about 2.5 stars, but how anyone could give it 5 is beyond me. One is tempted to recommend that those reviewers turn to some of the undisputed masters of the short form for greater delights than can be found here.
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Imaginations Running (Really) Wild
26. Mai 2006
Format:Taschenbuch
No matter what the gender is, everyone acts irrationally in all of Homes' short stories. It is without rhyme or reason these characters exist to do whatever and to say whatnot. Each tale ends abruptly therefore it is up to the readers to compose their minds about each conclusion. Some are funny than others and all of them are quite bizarre. Extreme usage of adjectives and pronouns in narrating events among more than two people at one time can result in a mild confusion in regards to the actual speaker or doer. Nevertheless, it is a fast read of a collection of peculiar people and happenings.
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Some good stuff, but not her best.
11. September 2004
Format:Taschenbuch
As is usually the case with Homes, these stories focus on discontented suburbanites. Mostly weaker men, stronger women. Some very good, if tough to read stories. As always, Homes's writing is quick-hitting. Especially as she deals with more serious topics: a husband and wife couple in which the woman's cancer is exposing the weaknesses in their relationship, the story of a man who hits and kills a kid with his car, and a story about Nancy and Ronald Reagan and dealing with his Alzheimer's. Overall, the stories were less outrageous than some of her other stuff, and several of them seemed to end with punch lines, which I didn't care for. But pretty good stuff otherwise.
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