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作者JOAN SILBER
出版社W. W. Norton
ISBN9780393348897
出版时间2014
装帧平装
开本32开
页数255页
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上书时间2020-11-24
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Fools: Stories
Author：Joan Silber
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition (8 July 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 039334889X
ISBN-13: 978-0393348897
Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 1.8 x 21.1 cm
内容简介
When is it wise to be a fool for something? What makes people want to be better than they are? From New York to India to Paris, from the Catholic Worker movement to Occupy Wall Street, the characters in Joan Silber s dazzling new story cycle tackle this question head-on. Vera, the shy, anarchist daughter of missionary parents, leaves her family for love and activism in New York. A generation later, her own doubting daughter insists on the truth of being of two minds, even in marriage. The adulterous son of a Florida hotel owner steals money from his family and departs for Paris, where he takes up with a young woman and finds himself outsmarted in turn. Fools ponders the circle of winners and losers, dupers and duped, and the price we pay for our beliefs. Fools is a luminous, intelligent, and rewarding work of fiction from the author for whom the Boston Globe said, "No other writer can make a few small decisions ripple across the globe, and across time, with more subtlety and power.""
Review
Fools is astonishing for its range, for its sweeping sense of time and place, and most especially for its deep insight into the way small choices can circle out to shape lives, and even human history. This is a beautiful book and an important literary achievement. --Dan Chaon
Joan Silber's stories charm us. And amuse us. And engage us. And move us. And even enlighten us. Fools embraces us all. --Amy Bloom
Fools is a wonderfully winning exploration of impetuousness in all of its appalling and appealing forms, and its deftly interconnected stories are devoted to those dreamers who act rashly out of their better natures, who never quit asking the world, Can't you do better than that?--a question certain to become increasingly urgent as this twenty-first century progresses. --Jim Shepard
Joan Silber's stories are like compressed novels. They are interlocking tales that fill in the history of revolutionary politics in the twentieth century. --Edmund White
Fools is a unique and fascinating collection that celebrates not so much a place or a family or a single life as it does an idea--anarchy--as it runs through three generations of loosely connected people. The collective vision this provokes is what makes the book intellectually satisfying, the separate lives it convincingly displays are what move the heart. --Antonya Nelson
Fools is great fiction. Here are anarchists and pacifists, protesters in causes to do with freedom and equality, causes to which these self-aware men and women devote themselves--or not. It is impossible not to be enthralled. --Christine Schutt
In Joan Silber's dazzling new story collection, written in elegant prose and with clairvoyant wisdom, the loves and aspirations, both spiritual and material, of six very different people reaffirm in unexpected ways the fallibility and the essential sameness of our human condition. --Lily Tuck
Excellent . . . the pleasure of Ms. Silber's overlapping tales is that in all of them characters do something to surprise you.
Sly, graceful.
Sly, graceful. "
I loved Fools. The stories always surprised me, with the narratives unfolding as if in real time, and then turning unexpected in so many ways, twisting into stories that felt like remembered history, but with such added emotion that I thought about the characters for several days afterward as if they were here in my house. --Susan Straight"
Joan Silber s stories charm us. And amuse us. And engage us. And move us. And even enlighten us. Fools embraces us all. --Amy Bloom"
Excellent . . . the pleasure of Ms. Silber s overlapping tales is that in all of them characters do something to surprise you."
So well made and pleasurable . . . [Silber] kicks ass.
A wonderfully winning exploration of impetuousness in all of its appalling and appealing forms.--Jim Shepard
Great fiction. . . . It is impossible not to be enthralled.--Christine Schutt
Dazzling . . . written in elegant prose and with clairvoyant wisdom.--Lily Tuck
Silber deftly constructs whole, fully realized lives in just a few pages, and her use of first-person narratives gives these stories an intimate, confessional feeling, as if you've struck up a conversation with a particularly talkative stranger.
Astonishing for its range, for its sweeping sense of time and place, and most especially for its deep insight into the way small choices can circle out to shape lives, and even human history. This is a beautiful book and an important literary achievement.--Dan Chaon
Joan Silber is one of the wisest, finest, most capacious observers of the human condition writing now.--Stacey D'Erasmo
A unique and fascinating collection. . . . The collective vision this provokes is what makes the book intellectually satisfying, the separate lives it convincingly displays are what move the heart.--Antonya Nelson
作者简介
Joan Silber is the author of six previous works of fiction. Among many awards and honors, she has won a PEN/Hemingway Award and has been a finalist for the National Book Award and the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in New York City.
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