With the succinct stories that have become her signature, Maile Meloy has graced literary publications from The New Yorker to The Paris Review and Best New American Voices. Her first published story collection, Half in Love, promises to bring Meloy's acclaimed vignettes to an even wider audience.
Meloy’s first return to short stories since her critically acclaimed debut, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is an extraordinary new work from one of the most promising writers of the last decade.
Eleven unforgettable new stories demonstrate the emotional power and the clean, assured style that have earned Meloy praise from critics and devotion from readers. Propelled by a terrific instinct for storytelling, and concerned with the convolutions of modern love and the importance of place, this collection is about the battlefields—and fields of victory—that exist in seemingly harmless spaces, in kitchens and living rooms and cars. Set mostly in the American West, the stories feature small-town lawyers, ranchers, doctors, parents, and children, and explore the moral quandaries of love, family, and friendship. A ranch hand falls for a recent law school graduate who appears unexpectedly— and reluctantly—in his remote Montana town. A young father opens his door to find his dead grandmother standing on the front step. Two women weigh love and betrayal during an early snow. Throughout the book, Meloy examines the tensions between having and wanting, as her characters try to keep hold of opposing forces in their lives: innocence and experience, risk and stability, fidelity and desire.
Knowing, sly, and bittersweet, Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It confirms Maile Meloy’s singular literary talent. Her lean, controlled prose, full of insight and unexpected poignancy, is the perfect complement to her powerfully moving storytelling.
發表於2024-06-06
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圖書標籤: 美國 小說 短篇 女性 外國文學 短篇小說 Fiction 英美
在豆瓣的年度榜上發現的書,短篇小說集,挺不錯的,一次一個故事,寫人的那點小心思。
評分Both ways is the ONLY way I want it.
評分如果我要成為寫作者,第一步我希望可以寫齣類似作者的作品。
評分I just cannot bring myself to give a shit about the characters... no connection whatsoever... 好像能感受到作者想走的文風方嚮,但最後結果文筆過於平淡。聽的有聲書,narrator們非常好,算是個亮點
評分讀完一段時間 還是對第一個故事印象最深刻
Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載