ISBN: 9781476713106
Editorial: Scribner
Autor: Mayhew Bergman, Megan
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 304
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: “Dazzling.” —The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice“Richly satisfying.” —The Wall Street Journal“These are stories you want to live in…a collection perfectly suited for our moment.” —Booklist (starred review)A collection of stories “so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves” (Los Angeles Times) about women experiencing all life’s beauty and challenges, from award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.A recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths.In this “closely observed” (The New Yorker) collection, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. “Bergman’s stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds...this collection is distinct and vivid...As singular as it is atmospheric” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).Review"Stories so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves." —LA Times“Dazzling. . . . a collection of horror stories couched in the glittering worlds of privilege. . . . The women who haunt these pages — former beauties, former athletes, formerly full of potential — have been kneecapped by the patriarchy." —Samantha Hunt, New York Times Book Review, Editor's Pick“Nature, in Ms. Bergman’s telling, is wondrous but barbed, bearing the curses of love’s betrayals. . . . richly satisfying.” —Wall Street Journal"Closely observed. . . . climate change looms, but casting darker shadows are the book’s many absent or inadequate parents." —The New Yorker"Engrossing stories about subjection, responsibility, and growth." —Shondaland"Bergman builds poignant scenarios big and small, from a woman building a terrarium of rare flowers as a heartbreak cure to a peach farmer battling drought." —Thrillist“Beautifully crafted stories about strong memorable women wrestling with their histories—both the ones they have chosen and those inherited from society.” —Ploughshares"Bergman’s characters are unfailingly human—steeped in paradox and grace—and her new collection is pensive, playful, and ambitious. . . . Bergman is a sensitive, essential writer." —The Millions"Bergman's fiction is full of smart, vulnerable people struggling with love and preoccupied by power." —Minneapolis Star-Tribune“The women in How Strange A Season—strong-willed activists, artists, and athletes—have footholds in the past and the future. . . . Climate change lurks like a specter, though not ornamentally; Bergman is a gifted, observant scribe of the natural world.” —Indy Week“Imaginative and compelling. . . . women of all sorts populate this book: artists, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, and environmentalists, each realistic in strange and memorable ways.” —Brooklyn Rail"Bergman’s stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds. . . . this collection is distinct and vivid, each story burrowing inside the reader’s brain to leave an indelible mark. As singular as it is atmospheric." —Kirkus (starred review)"These are stories you want to live in. . . . In a collection perfectly suited for our moment, Bergman examines what remains of what was given to us and suggests how we might move on as the world continues to change around us." —Booklist (starred review)"Mayhew Bergman is one of the best authors out there for chronicling our tangled, intimate, complicated relationship to the natural wo
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