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Laddar... Ghosts of Wyoming: Storiesav Alyson Hagy
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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. Alyson Hagy is a skilled storyteller. Many of the stories in Ghosts of Wyoming (Graywolf Press) feel more like the type that would be told around a campfire than put down on the page, particularly "Superstitions of the Indians." The best of the bunch is the first story in the collection, "Border". It has a more contemporary feel than the other stories, and it sets the tone for a very different collection that the one that Hagy presents. While each story is a good one in its own way, the collection lacks cohesion. A good collection of short stories is bound together by a thematic or stylistic link. Other than being set in the state of Wyoming, there is not much holding these stories together. The inclusion of the ghosts is sometimes literal, sometimes metaphorical. Each story goes off on a different track, and each is written in a different style. This inconsistency is distracting to the reader who is reading the collection from start to finish. Taken separately, however, the stories can be enjoyed for the glimpses they offer into life in Wyoming. Overall, I'm very pleased with what Hagy has to offer, and I look forward to reading more of her work. I do wish this collection had been organized a bit differently, though. ( ) inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
An unsentimental vision of the west, new and old, comes to life in a gritty new collection of stories by the author ofSnow, Ashes InGhosts of Wyoming, Alyson Hagy explores the hardscrabble lives and terrain of America's least-populous state. Beyond the tourist destinations of Jackson Hole and Yellowstone lies a less familiar and wilder frontier defined by the tension wrought by abundance and scarcity. A young runaway with a big secret slips across the state border and steals a collie pup from the Meeker County fairgrounds. A chorus of trainmen details a day spent laying rail across the Wyoming Territory, while contemporary voices describe life in the oil and gas fields near Gillette. A traveling preacher is caught up in a deadly skirmish between cattle rustlers and ranchers on his way from Rawlins to the Indian reservation on the Popo Agie River. Locals and activists clash when a tourist makes an archaeological discovery near Hoodoo Mountain. With spirited, lyrical prose, Hagy expertly weaves together Wyoming's colorful pioneer and speculator history with the notoften- heard voices of petroleum workers, thrill-seeking rock climbers, and those left behind by the latest boom and bust. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Google Books — Laddar... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Klassifikation enligt LCBetygMedelbetyg:
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