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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. A decent set of short stories set in Western Canada. I found them to be starkly original, especially in their observations, and that I learnt something about the type of lives that go on there. That, for a writer, is a great compliment. Carlucci has style and poise when he writes. He is able to, by going through the motions, describe and transliterate the lives of his characters into short stories by glimpses and snippets. That is the power of his collection. A good read: 3 stars. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
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Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019 Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in spades, and most of them fester in the high-rise by the lake. In this visceral, emotionally raw, and completely absorbing collection, Carlucci takes his readers through the ravaged history of Franklin Place, from its construction during the Cold War to its demolition decades later. We meet the Franklins themselves, three generations of landlords, each more paranoid and alienated than the last. And we meet their tenants: a drug dealer, a lonely bigot, a political activist, a struggling father, a wandering sex offender, a woman who refuses to give into it all. They wander in and out of each other's lives, with little in common but the building and the mould behind its walls. In The High-Rise in Fort Fierce, Carlucci immerses us in a dim yet eerily familiar world. Love and death, conflict and compromise, fear, determination, and the tense relations between indigenous and settler populations thread the warp and weft of his dark and irrepressible tapestry. We cannot look away. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The second part tells stories of individuals, their lives overlapping briefly from time to time, and told from both characters' points of view when they do.
One of those books that I wanted to turn over and immediately reread. Except I'm not sure I could take the story of the man, disabled in an accident, and his three-legged dog. Such pain, with such understatement.
Warning: Profanity. Would otherwise have rated 5 stars. ( )