Bang Crunch - Stories

Zusatztext “Smith's writing has real spark and energy.... It's a fizzing debut.” — Los Angeles Times “Marvelously readable and inventive.... Smith's work is vehemently quirky but executed with the panache and facility of a polished veteran.” — San Francisco Chronicle “An assured and imaginative short-story debut. Smith's ability to write from an absurdly wide ranges of character perspectives...is a disarming delight.” — The Washington Post “Flamboyant and impishly humorous . . . . Bang Crunch ? That's the sound of a talented new writer making his mark.” — The Toronto Star “A remarkably fresh and self-assured debut. . . . Smith demonstrates the range of both his imagination and his empathy. . . . [He] is not just a natural! he's a kind of literary chameleon. He adopts the voices of men! women! and children with equal ease.” — Quill & Quire “Smith seems able to write about anything with flair and sympathy. . . . Bang Crunch is great fiction.” — Toronto Globe and Mail “Supremely crafted. . . . A polished and marvelously textured first book of short fiction.” — Now Magazine Informationen zum Autor Neil Smith is a Montreal writer. He has won an honorable mention at the National Magazine Awards in Canada, first prize at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, and was nominated for the Journey Prize, one of Canada's most prestigous literary awards, three times. He is also a French translator. Klappentext In Neil Smith's nine stories! average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations! as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes! entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome! whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes. Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters! and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing! exacting concern for the profundities of our lives. ISOLETTES Blue tube, green tube, clear tube, fat tube. A Dr. Seuss rhyme. The tubes run from robotic Magi gathered around the incubator, snake through portholes in the clear plastic box, then burrow into the baby’s pinkish grey skin. One tube up her left nostril. One tube down her throat. One tube into an arm no wider than a Popsicle stick. One tube tunnels into her chest. The skin of her chest is so thin. The baby’s mother can almost see the tiny organs beneath, the way shrimp is visible under the rice paper of a spring roll. The baby doesn’t move. Doesn’t cry. To the mother, the baby, with its blue-black eyes, is an extraterrestrial crash-landed on her planet. Hidden away and kept alive by G-men while they assess what threat this tiny alien might pose. “What kind of mother will you be?” Jacob asked. He and An sat side by side on a braided rug watching a flickering candle on An’s coffee table. An said, “I won’t be a mommy who bores people with the trials and tribulations of teething.” Jacob disagreed: “You’ll be like those TV-commercial moms who fret over whether to buy two-ply or three-ply toilet paper.” From the coffee table, An picked up a blue ceramic cup, the kind used for espresso, and handed it to Jacob. “Real traditional,” she said. “Real Norman Rockwell.” Jacob grinned and stood, stretching his long legs. While he was in the bathroom, An got up and dropped a jazz CD in her player. Then she went into her bedroom and lay on her bed. Before the first song ended, Jacob came out of the bathroom. “You were fast this time,” An said. Jacob replied that he’d been practising at home. He handed her the espresso cup and kissed her forehead. “I don’t love you,” he said...

Relazione

Smith's writing has real spark and energy.... It's a fizzing debut.
Los Angeles Times

Marvelously readable and inventive.... Smith's work is vehemently quirky but executed with the panache and facility of a polished veteran.
San Francisco Chronicle

An assured and imaginative short-story debut. Smith's ability to write from an absurdly wide ranges of character perspectives...is a disarming delight.
The Washington Post

Flamboyant and impishly humorous. . . . Bang Crunch? That's the sound of a talented new writer making his mark.
The Toronto Star

A remarkably fresh and self-assured debut. . . . Smith demonstrates the range of both his imagination and his empathy. . . . [He] is not just a natural, he's a kind of literary chameleon. He adopts the voices of men, women, and children with equal ease.
Quill & Quire

Smith seems able to write about anything with flair and sympathy. . . . Bang Crunch is great fiction.
Toronto Globe and Mail

Supremely crafted. . . . A polished and marvelously textured first book of short fiction.
Now Magazine

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Neil Smith
• Editore: Vintage USA
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.01.2008
• EAN: 9780307386106
• ISBN: 978-0-307-38610-6
• Pagine: 242
• Dimensioni: 133 mm x 203 mm x 19 mm
• Serie: Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Originals; Vintage Contemporaries; Vintage Originals
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi