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Bob Shacochis

The Next New World

Stories

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If we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” -Providence JournalThe haunting stories in The Next New World have a directness, an immediacy, a funny, sexy quality that belongs to today, yet they are infused with an aura of history. The characters are outrageous originals who through Shacochis's telling, become eerily familiar: two elderly sisters share a phantom lover; a Virginia patriarch, haunted by ghosts of Confederate soldiers, is buried with their bones; a family celebrates the Fourth of July in the shadow of the father's Alzheimer's syndrome; a musician's thunderous love turns him… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-8021-9177-9
  • EAN: 9780802191779
  • Produktnummer: 31916073
  • Verlag: Grove Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
  • Seitenangabe: 209 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

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Charged with wit and style . . . Intelligent, engaging, and richly realized.” -New York Times Book ReviewIf we are in the golden age of the short story, Bob Shacochis is one of the writers who got us here.” -Providence JournalShacochis's stories are immensely beguiling, peopled with memorable characters conveyed in kock-your-socks-off prose. To enter this . . . collection is to be led into a mansion of the storyteller's art.” -NewsdayThese stories are filled with compassion, sweet and vivid moments, wry, dark humor . . . verse and voice.” -San Francisco ChronicleShacochis's assets as a writer-his quick reportorial eye, his ear for contemporary speech, his instinctive sympathy for tough, inarticulate lives . . . Mr. Shacochis locates a colony of dreamers reluctant to barter their hopes. -Michiko Kakutani, New York TimesA remarkable storyteller . . . From such daring and craft comes prose capable of both fantastic revelation and familiar observations.” -PeopleShacochis is an inventive storyteller, sensitive to the land and to the past . . . He plays the full range of language.” - Milwaukee JournalShacochis seduces his readers into the alien territories he has made his own.” - Detroit NewsRich and sensual, intensely imagined stories . . . by a writer who can both enchant and teach.” -Houston ChronicleShacochis is a master of voices. . . . In The Next New World he roams about through history and across the globe, tethering his wit to a sense of political conscience. . . . Sometimes more is more.” -Miami HerladShacochis's writing shines.” -Baltimore SunThere is an up-to-the-minute wildness about this writer. . . . He has the ability to sketch a character in a line . . . and his sentences are a marvelous, rare combination of clarity and richness.” -L.A. Daily NewsShacochis juxtaposes the comic with the poignant, the beautiful with the grotesque, serenity with sudden violence. . . . Some writers strive for years to develop an individual voice, a style they can call their own. Shacochis is already the swashbuckling master of many voices, all of them compelling.” -Orlando SentinelEach story in this collection is well-written; each commands its own new world.” -Washington PostBob Shacochis writes literature with a capital 'L.'” -Winston-Salem JournalBob Shacochis has been true to his title and set out for new territory. . . . The Next New World is an altogether illuminating book.” -Cleveland Plain DealerThe best stories in The Next New World are not cluttered with experimentalism and are so fine they will undoubtedly be anthologized for decades.” -Dallas Morning NewsShacochis is one of the very best writers of short ficition-and since this is the Golden Age of the American short story, that is saying a lot.” -Minneapolis Star & TribuneThese are stories to give us strength. . . . Shacochis is an old-fashioned storyteller, with a mimic's ear for dialogue and accent.” -Philadelphia Inquirer

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