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"Viviamo in acqua" è un piccolo trattato di sopravvivenza quotidiana inscenato nei sobborghi di un'America irrancidita, infestata da una panoplia di ragazzini molesti, ladri di bmx e alcolizzati all'ultimo stadio. I suoi protagonisti sono truffatori che fingendosi di Greenpeace gabbano i colletti bianchi pieni di sensi di colpa, giornalisti che si vendicano della ex manipolandole l'oroscopo, barboni in cerca di qualche spiccio per comprarsi l'ultimo Harry Potter. Sono recidivi della vita, gente abituata a deludere le aspettative per quanto basse possano essere, padri dal cuore spezzato che vedono sfilare dinnanzi a sé una lunga carrellata di occasioni perse, uomini in cerca di redenzione che falliscono, e falliscono di nuovo, stavolta meglio. Tutti membri di una comunità «troppo povera, troppo bianca, troppo ignorante». Qual è la loro versione dei fatti? Non c'è nessuna verità né la parvenza di un'agnizione che sistemi le cose e ci faccia tirare un sospiro di sollievo procrastinando l'inevitabile. In compenso «ci sono mondi interi sotto quella superficie». Magari noi non riusciamo a vedere nulla sotto le increspature dell'acqua, ma Walter sì. Abulie, dipendenze e un certo rammaricato cinismo animano una scrittura senza epifanie consolatorie, pungente di ironia e gravida di calor bianco, in cui l'umanità finalmente emerge da sott'acqua con una consapevolezza amara, ma insperata e nuova. O nuoti o affoghi.
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Now…you know what we know.” Her voice went even lower. That nobody chooses. That we’re all sick. We’re all here.” One wonders how many times the author misspelled the title. I guess the stories do not live in Walter any longer but are out there for us to enjoy, although I am not sure that is th Leggi tutto
Surprisingly enough, Jess Walter’s collection of stories did what Mitchell’s couldn’t. It urged me to keep turning pages. It left me musing over what I had just read. It messed up with my presumptions. And ultimately, it moved me. Deeply. Walter’s style is direct and darkly humorous, satirical at tim Leggi tutto
Posted at Shelf Inflicted Brilliant! It usually takes me forever to get through short story collections. If a story doesn’t grab my interest, I’ll put the book down and read something else. Often, so much time has passed that I end up returning the collection to the shelf and forgetting about it. Not Leggi tutto
Five stars. With a bullet. And a syringe. And some helpless, hopeless wailing. I met Walter at ALA and he signed his book for me. To tell the stark truth, I was wandering around, saw him signing books in the Harper Collins booth and thought, "Hey, that's a short line...", and even though I'd never he Leggi tutto
Upon completion of this book of short stories, I feel like I’ve taken multiple personality disorder to a whole new level. First, I panhandled on the street corner watching the BMWs and the Mercedes and the Lincolns drive by; then I slept with a married woman and stole money from my bookie; then I hi Leggi tutto
A well-known writer friend once asked me: “Do you enjoy writing?” “Yes,” I answered, surprised. “I love it. How about you?” “I love it too,” he answered. And then he went on to tell me this is not the case for most of the writers he knows. Writing is the great joy of my life, and if we are a small club Leggi tutto
Thirteen short stories, almost all of them edgy and riveting. Jess Walter's narrative skill is a rare find. He balances the horrid, the heartfelt, and the humorous within each story. Sometimes it's the story that holds me spellbound, and other times it's the writing itself, independent of the story. Leggi tutto
The thing about failure is that it’s never really over. Even after shuffling off this mortal coil, your failures reverberate like ripples in a pond, carry into lives left behind. Jess Walter, in his exquisite collection We Live In Water presents twelve men, Disciples of Failure, whose stories we rea Leggi tutto
It’s probably not fair for me to continue to review Jess Walter’s work. He is, without a doubt, my favorite author and as such could write assembly instructions for IKEA that I’d give all the stars. This writer can bring a reader to tears, elicit snorts of derision and induce gales of uncontrollable Leggi tutto
Three stories in, and already mesmerized: how does he do that? How can he breath so much life into everything he creates, and how can he make me care so much about anything he writes? Well, I'm done now. What can I say? I love this guy. He's about 50 years old, so I'll have at least another 20-25 of Leggi tutto
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