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Laddar... Tenth of December: Stories (urspr publ 2013; utgåvan 2014)av George Saunders (Författare)
VerkdetaljerTionde december : noveller av George Saunders (2013)
  
» 19 till Books Read in 2016 (897) Books Read in 2012 (64) Reiny (10) SantaThing 2014 Gifts (107) To Read (357) Contemporary Fiction (50) Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I read this quickly because I know I'm going to revisit it (and all of Saunders's collections) in a few months. Some of it's pretty typical fare for Saunders (not a bad thing) and some -- e.g. the title story, which is really excellent -- has more in the way of redemption in it that I'm accustomed to from Saunders. I'd love to see more from him in that vein. (  ) dllh | Jan 6, 2021 |  Only read the title story on The New Yorker.com site ~ Tenth of December - 3* I really enjoyed the inner dialogue of the two characters. Seayla2020 | Dec 20, 2020 | George Saunders has been known as an excellent short-story writer. This is my first experience with him (it won't be my last!) but some of his previous collections are highly-regarded. This collection was a mixture of slightly altered universes that you would not believe you would find in our current world and stories of ordinary people that you would fully expect could live in the town or city you find yourself. I found the stories "Victory Lap", "Escape from Spiderhead" and "The Semplica Girl Diaries" to be my favorites, but I enjoyed them all, including the two-page "Sticks". Of the stories that focused on situations that you would find in everyday life, "Home" describes a war veteran, who committed some untold atrocity, returning home and beginning the process of reconnecting with family. Was he guilty? It would seem so, but there seems to be little interest in understanding the situation in which he committed these acts. We judge using our world as the baseline, not recognizing that many people, including us perhaps, might behave in unforeseen ways if forced into a similar situation. (  ) afkendrick | Oct 24, 2020 | Just a bit too much "style" for my taste. Fine writing, somewhat interesting, started skipping immediately. (  ) tmph | Sep 13, 2020 | These stories take place in that (familiar) slice of venn diagram where "sympathetic" and "pathetic" overlap. Feels like what would happen if Chris Ware wrote prose. ( ) jimctierney | Jul 7, 2020 |
 No one writes more powerfully than George Saunders about the lost, the unlucky, the disenfranchised, those Americans who struggle to pay the bills, make the rent, hold onto a job they might detest — folks who find their dreams slipping from their grasp as they frantically tread water, trying to keep from drowning. Ingår i förlagsserienMirmanda (115) Innehåller
George Saunders har skrivit den bs̃ta boken du kommer att ls̃a i r̄, deklarerade New York Times sn̲dagsmagasin p ̄sin fr̲stasida nr̃ Tionde december kom ut i USA. Den djr̃va rubriken fl̲jdes av kritikerhyllningar, topplaceringar p ̄bs̃tsl̃jarlistorna och litterr̃a utmr̃kelser som Folio Prize and Story Prize.De tio novellerna i Tionde december beskriver en urflippad men igenkñnbar samtid: avtrubbande kontorsmilje̲r, statusstress och livscoachplattityder dragna till sin spets. Samtidigt lyfter Saunders moralfilosofiska frḡor om civilkurage och ansvar; vid sidan av hans karakteristiska satir och skruvade science fiction-influenser finns ett modigt strk̄ av medkñsla. Som i novellen ♯revarv, dr̃ en tonr̄skille str̄ vid kk̲sfn̲stret och ser tjejen i grannhuset bli kidnappad, och km̃par mot instinkten att g ̄in p ̄sitt rum och lt̄sas som ingenting.Tionde december r̃ stilistiskt innovativ, originell, smart, svart och rolig och den fr̲skjuter grñserna fr̲ ls̃arens fr̲estl̃lningsvr̃ld. Efter att i r̄atal ha varit en hemlig favorit med fans som fr̲fattarna Zadie Smith och Junot Da̕z introduceras nu George Saunders p ̄svenska med boken som blivit hans stora internationella genombrott."Den bs̃ta boken du kommer att ls̃a i r̄"New York Times verst̃tare:Niclas Nilsson [Elib] Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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