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Födelsedag: 1983
Kön: female
Födelseort: Colorado, USA
Bostadsorter: Brooklyn, New York, USA
Kort biografi: Helen Phillips is the author of the novel THE BEAUTIFUL BUREAUCRAT, the inter-genre collection AND YET THEY WERE HAPPY (named a notable collection of 2011 by The Story Prize), the children's adventure novel HERE WHERE THE SUNBEAMS ARE GREEN, and the forthcoming short story collection SOME POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS. She has received a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, the Italo Calvino Prize in Fabulist Fiction, and The Iowa Review Nonfiction Award. Her work has appeared in Tin House, Electric Literature, and BOMB, among others. She is a professor at Brooklyn College

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Some Possible Solutions: Stories av Helen Phillips

A collection of short stories (some very short) set in worlds that are slightly off-kilter from our own, sometimes in ways that only slightly exaggerate or distort reality, others in ways that feel rather more surreal. Cities so removed from nature that even the wind has ceased to exist, worlds where you can easily put in a request to learn the date of your death, versions of reality where a person can wake up suddenly able to see everyone else without their skin or witness time suddenly stopping at the end of a dinner party, planets full of counterparts that people can fuse with to become one complete, perfectly happy being, a la Plato. But all this strangeness, for the most part, is grounded in the details of everyday life, of romantic relationships, parenthood, loneliness, the gaps between rich and poor, and the general experience of living.

I will say, this collection didn't wow me quite as much as I thought it was going to after reading the first couple of stories, as not all of them worked nearly as well for me as those did. But even the ones I didn't entirely get or click with were still bizarrely intriguing, and they're all very well-written. If you like this kind of strange, thought-provoking stuff, this is definitely one to check out.… (mer)

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bragan | 16 andra recensioner | Mar 23, 2024 |

The Need av Helen Phillips

Hard to follow, well written book that has confusion, laughter and uhhhh.

It grabbed my interest from the beginning but lost me as the story kept on. I get it. But wouldn’t reread it. Little girl is a hoot though.

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mybookloveobsession | 28 andra recensioner | Mar 12, 2024 |

The Need av Helen Phillips

2 stars for awesome concept and moments of brilliance. But the execution and the ... story? Not remotely for me. And to be clear, I *am* a mom of a toddler. So I haven’t “forgotten,” I just don’t think this hits it. Not for me anyway.

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avanders | 28 andra recensioner | Nov 28, 2023 |