Sinossi
Le protagoniste dei racconti di "Animali in salvo" siamo noi. Siamo noi Cheryl, che cerca invano di avere un figlio e trascina controvoglia il marito a una festa, per poi rubare i palloncini e chiudersi con lui in bagno. Siamo noi Mindy, che abita nella mansarda dei genitori e non esce mai, finché una sera viene coinvolta dal suo capo nel rocambolesco salvataggio di un'anatra. E siamo noi Sylvie, che dopo la separazione dei genitori non riconosce più se stessa, tanto da rinunciare a lavarsi pur di non vedersi nuda allo specchio. Siamo noi anche Delilah, che teme di non amare il bambino che porta in grembo, e si rifugia di tanto in tanto nel suo vecchio quartiere per bere una birra. E siamo noi anche Caroline, Gladys, Marianne e tutte le altre donne di queste storie. Con sguardo tenero e ironico, a tratti incantato, Margaret Malone mette in scena la vita così come accade, illuminando il momento successivo a una svolta cruciale, quando è possibile immaginare un futuro che non è sempre il migliore e il più desiderato, e rischiamo di trovarci goffi e insoddisfatti, o impreparati al dipanarsi degli eventi.
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- Pagine: 144
- Data di uscita: 18-10-2018
Recensioni
Margaret Malone is a rare talent. Her prose is pitch perfect. Her stories are both polished and raw, crafted and yet somehow alive. The characters in PEOPLE LIKE YOU are indeed people like you, and me—no matter what our circumstances. My copy is quickly becoming worn, as I love to revisit these stor Leggi tutto
This women, these sentences. I finished the book on a couch in my living room. The Oregon fall rain going and going. And when I finished it, when I rounded the bend of the last story and the last page in this collection, the sun was out for a second. One dead leaf spun on a spiderweb. I've known Mar Leggi tutto
Margaret Malone’s stories are written with an existentialist angst, a noir voice, each narrator somehow knowing that what is happening isn’t really what’s happening, or that the unexpected is really expected and whatever is occurring is taken with a shrug, an almost surrender without actually giving Leggi tutto
Margaret Malone’s debut collection, People Like You, is one of the best collections I’ve read in a while! It’s hilarious, strong, visceral, and brilliant. These nine stories are peopled with authentic, fractured, questioning human packages trying to figure each other out with all our proclamations o Leggi tutto
oh my stars. to be a person like margaret malone. who writes stories like these. freaking fantastic.
I have to thank my dear pal Meg Tuite for recommending Margaret Malone's book, People Like You. (Also check out their interview at Connotation Press!) This book made me chuckle, and burst out laughing more than any other read in 2015. Yet, Malone's stories are not superficial in any way. She takes o Leggi tutto
One of the few books from our contemporaries I read this autumn that truly excited me. Each story is narrated by a woman in her twenties and thirties in intimate present-tense. I was hooked on how each one pays attention to identifying her emotions so as to better connect with those in her surroundi Leggi tutto
After reading a story in this debut collection, I would think, "This is my favorite story." And then I'd think the same thing after the next story and so on. Margaret Malone writes about ordinary human longing so well. I can't wait to see what she does next.
This book is smart. Each character is perfectly human and their unhappiness is familiar and funny in the way that honest despondency tends to be. At the end of nearly every story, I was in tears, just because they felt so true. Read this goddamn book.
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