This Will Be Difficult to Explain: And Other Stories - Couverture rigide

Skibsrud, Johanna

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0393073750 ISBN 13 : 9780393073751

Editeur : W W Norton & Co Inc, 2012

Synopsis

These loosely connected hypnotic stories about memory and desire showcase one of fiction's brightest new voices. Taking readers from South Dakota to Paris, to Japan, into art galleries, foreign apartments, farms and beach hotels, Johanna Skibsrud introduces an astonishing array of characters in these piercingly wise stories. A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that he is someone other than who we think he is. A divorced father who fears estrangement from his thirteen-year-old daughter allows her to take the wheel of his car, realising too late that he's made a grave mistake. Time and again Skibsrud's characters find themselves face to face with what they didn't know they didn't know, at the exact point of intersection between impossibility and desire. In "This Will Be Difficult to Explain", Skibsrud, whose prose has been compared to Nicole Krauss and Marilynne Robinson, has created a series of masterful, perceptive tales.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

These loosely connected hypnotic stories about memory and desire, from Giller Prize winner Johanna Skibsrud, introduces us to an astonishing array of characters who time and again find themselves face to face with what they didn't know they didn't know, at the exact point of intersection between impossibility and desire.

A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that he is someone other than who we think he is. A divorced father who fears estrangement from his thirteen-year-old daughter allows her to take the wheel of his car, realising too late that he's made a grave mistake. Taking readers from South Dakota to Paris, to Japan, into art galleries, foreign apartments, farms and beach hotels, This Will Be Difficult to Explain is a masterful and perceptive series of tales from one of fiction's brightest new voices.

Revue de presse

"The characters in these note-perfect stories tend to make their most important discoveries by stumbling against them.The writing here is an absolute joy to read; clear, economical and condensed." (Kate Saunders The Times)

"Funny, thoughtful and oblique, Skibsrud's stories explode with sudden meaning." (Independent)

"What is it about Canada that keeps on producing some of the best short stories writers in the world? The latest of the younger generation and the most talked about is Johanna Skibsrud. It's a name that might be hard to remember, but her stories are difficult to forget." (Christena Appleyard Daily Mail)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393073750
• ISBN 13: 9780393073751
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 169
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible