Talking in the Dark - Couverture rigide

Louis, Laura Glen

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0151005222 ISBN 13 : 9780151005222

Editeur : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2001

Synopsis

The stories in Talking in the Dark read like small novels: the worlds they imagine are that layered and complete. Each examination of the underside of love-from endurance and betrayal to sacrifice, obsession, and abandonment-evokes images of lowered voices and shared confessions. The deepest chords of intimacy echo throughout this moving and, finally, hopeful book.

A single mother, haunted by loneliness and self-doubt, sleeps with her daughter's teenage boyfriend, and, in a scene of frightening family tension, turns her rage not toward the husband who abandoned her, but toward her daughter. A young tennis player experiencing her first love becomes the victim of a young man's dangerous obsession. An elderly widower becomes the target of a materialistic younger woman.

Laura Glen Louis's language is spare and precise, sometimes filled with the subterfuges of desire and need, sometimes vibrant with the hope of love's birth or rebirth, sometimes counterpointed by tenderness and alienation. Hers is a new voice, but one that arrives fully mature--incisive, unsparing, and enlightening.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

The stories in Talking in the Dark read like small novels: the worlds they imagine are that layered and complete. Each examination of the underside of love-from endurance and betrayal to sacrifice, obsession, and abandonment-evokes images of lowered voices and shared confessions. The deepest chords of intimacy echo throughout this moving and, finally, hopeful book.

A single mother, haunted by loneliness and self-doubt, sleeps with her daughter's teenage boyfriend, and, in a scene of frightening family tension, turns her rage not toward the husband who abandoned her, but toward her daughter. A young tennis player experiencing her first love becomes the victim of a young man's dangerous obsession. An elderly widower becomes the target of a materialistic younger woman.

Laura Glen Louis's language is spare and precise, sometimes filled with the subterfuges of desire and need, sometimes vibrant with the hope of love's birth or rebirth, sometimes counterpointed by tenderness and alienation. Hers is a new voice, but one that arrives fully mature--incisive, unsparing, and enlightening.

Revue de presse

PRAISE FOR TALKING IN THE DARK

"The excitement of reading Laura Glen Louis' debut story collection . . . derives not only from its prose but also from the possibilities she sees in her characters."--The Washington Post Book World
"The individuals in Laura Glen Louis's [collection] are characters for whom the experience of love demands the ultimate migration-from safety to omni-present danger. . . . Superb and wise stories."--The New York Times Book Review
"Louis' sophisticated and fluid use of a shifting point-of-view works to underscore the complexity of what might at first appear to be a simple tale."--San Francisco Chronicle

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0151005222
• ISBN 13: 9780151005222
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 224
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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