Honeymoon and Other Stories
by Kevin Canty
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Fiction. Literature. HTML:Kevin Canty is a master of the short story, a writer whose work has been compared to that of Flannery O'Connor and Raymond Carver, but always with the understanding that Canty's is strikingly new, cool, and real. Now in Honeymoon, after two novels, Kevin Canty returns to short fiction, his first collection since his debut A Stranger in this World, a book that was hailed as "Superb: These tautly structured stories breathe with sharp, distilled intelligence."show more
Honeymoon is a book about love, about lovers and would-be lovers exploring unlikely alliances, all of them toeing a certain eventful edge, a decision between rational restraint and something altogether different. In the title story, a man leaves his lover's wedding with the bride's ex-girlfriend; in "Flipper" a young escapee from "fat camp" discovers a different kind of hunger while enjoying a pregnant teen's gifts of forbidden chocolate; in "Aquarium," a thirty-eight-year old woman who claims to "follow the straight and narrow" tries to resist seducing her fifteen-year-old nephew again.
Revealing the hidden longings and quirky needs of both men and women with a tough sensitivity and deep, sometimes biting humor, Honeymoon presents a masterful writer purely at home in his form, yet continuing to push himself and his stories to their limits with enthusiasm and daring. show less
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Secco, impeccabile, bravo. Lampi su situazioni improbabili (non della improbabilità di Monica Drake, che è invece finta) di persone possibili. Gli USA sono il giusto terreno per queste fantasie, che spesso scivolano nel sesso di una sera, che si nutrono di riferimenti marveliani, che prendono a pretesto il North Carolina per parlare di clima. Peccato per l'assenza di altre traduzioni dello stesso autore.
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- First words*
- Some scenery, then: a sleeping city by the ocean, streetlights and foghorns, a wisp of fog curling down the hills (in fact cigar smoke, blown by a production assistant just off camera).
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)He would never get a chance to tell her; Christa, who would have loved this store so much.
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