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All the Anxious Girls on Earth marks the debut of a startingly original literary voice. Zsuzsi Gartner's exuberant prose gives voice to unforgettable characters who survive by their wits as they cope with indifferent relationships, lackluster jobs, and the myriad curve-balls life throws their way.
A woman calls in fake bomb threats from the nineteenth floor of a bank tower as revenge against her ex-lover. The mother of a girl killed by a teenage urban guerilla thrives spectacularly in her industrious grief, transforming herself into a forgiveness guru and talk-show host. Lured into the wilderness by her desire for a man who rebuilds vintage airplanes, a young woman finds she lusts more for biscotti and city sidewalks. A small, heroic child makes a guileless request for pajamas and creates a psychic storm at the center of her anxious, achievement-mad parents' lives.
Rendered in a jittery, jazzed-up prose that has been compared to that of Lorrie Moore and Mary Flanagan, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos, beauty, and alienation of contemporary life and signal the arrival of a writer to watch.
A woman calls in fake bomb threats from the nineteenth floor of a bank tower as revenge against her ex-lover. The mother of a girl killed by a teenage urban guerilla thrives spectacularly in her industrious grief, transforming herself into a forgiveness guru and talk-show host. Lured into the wilderness by her desire for a man who rebuilds vintage airplanes, a young woman finds she lusts more for biscotti and city sidewalks. A small, heroic child makes a guileless request for pajamas and creates a psychic storm at the center of her anxious, achievement-mad parents' lives.
Rendered in a jittery, jazzed-up prose that has been compared to that of Lorrie Moore and Mary Flanagan, these stories brilliantly capture the pathos, beauty, and alienation of contemporary life and signal the arrival of a writer to watch.
From Publishers Weekly
The nine edgy tales gathered in Canadian short story stylist Gartner's debut collection are daringly diverse in presentation, if uneven in execution. Most problematic is the overuse of a tricky second-person narrative voice, employed in no fewer than three tales, including the opening story, "How to Survive in the Bush." Here, the earnestly didactic imperative detracts from the archly humorous underpinnings of a Canadian version of Green Acres involving a city girl and a reclusive aviator. Thankfully, style and content are more happily wedded in the earthy "boys growing," in which a scent-obsessed schoolteacher pursues her still sweet-smelling male students, rejecting men her own age who reek of "wet metal." In the hilarious "The Nature of Pure Evil," the protagonist discovers a novel way to assert herself. After her live-in boyfriend of seven years makes her iron his tuxedo shirt before he heads off to what turns out to be his wedding to another woman, Hedy begins calling in fake bomb threats. Gartner proves herself capable of pyrotechnic bursts of prose in "City of my dreams," which revolves around a woman named Lewis, the programmer for a film festival who retreats to work in a shop that sells food-inspired soap after a disappointed filmmaker self-immolates on her front porch. Finally, in the most ambitious piece, "Odds that, all things considered, she'd someday be happy," a terrorist act gets the four-sided Rashomon treatment, with the victim's mother benefiting the most when she uses her daughter's tragic death as the perfect springboard to a career as a talk-show host. When Gartner doesn't strain too hard at her craft, her undeniably original voice charges her stories with irresistible verve. (June)
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Great stuff.
2000/9/18
形式:ペーパーバック
Please don't listen to the last reviewer. These are really exciting, interesting stories full of turns of phrase that'll just make your hair curl. The most significant thing here is "boys growing," and while nothing else quite matches up to that, this is a solid collection. Recommended for those of us who don't mind a little weirdness.
Biased because I like Canucks
2005/7/16
形式:ペーパーバック
I just re-read this book recently and felt like putting in my two cents because i just enjoyed it so much ... again. I like Gartner's style a lot. She reminds me of some of my favorite authors, but with a lighter touch. She's got the weirdness of AM Homes without the hopelessness; the edginess of Mary Gaitskill without the relentlessness. She's got the off kilter insight into human nature of Barbara Kingsolver without the granola touches. And Gartner's got the hipness of the whole "Eggars" crowd while not being self-consciously cool.
Granted, there's a detached quality to Gartner's style and sometimes there's too much specific detail, but for just sheer originality, and not feeling like you have to hug a puppy to restore your faith in humanity after reading a book -- i highly recommend.
Granted, there's a detached quality to Gartner's style and sometimes there's too much specific detail, but for just sheer originality, and not feeling like you have to hug a puppy to restore your faith in humanity after reading a book -- i highly recommend.
Reality and Sarcasm at its best.
2001/9/21
形式:ペーパーバック
I usually don't like short stories, based on the fact that they usually have to have some sort of meaning behind it. I love ZsuZsi's writing style though.
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who wants to laugh
I recommend this book to anyone and everyone who wants to laugh
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