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Difficult Women de Roxane Gay

Difficult Women

Autor Roxane Gay
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 noi 2017

Suntem de părere că există o frumusețe crudă în felul în care Roxane Gay reușește să decanteze suferința și reziliența în aceste pagini. Citind „Difficult Women”, vei simți o tensiune constantă, un amestec de neliniște și recunoaștere, pe măsură ce intri în viețile unor femei care refuză să fie simplificate sau salvate. Atmosfera este una de o onestitate brutală, pendulând între realismul visceral al unui Michigan înghețat și absurdul unei suburbii în care vecinii se spionează reciproc cu o precizie chirurgicală.

Fiecare dintre cele 21 de povestiri funcționează ca o fereastră spre un univers interior marcat de traume vechi sau de compromisuri zilnice. Forța narativă a lui Louise Kennedy din The End of the World is a Cul de Sac, unde cruzimea umană este redată cu o precizie electrică, se combină aici cu sensibilitatea tăioasă a lui G. Elizabeth Kretchmer — dar Roxane Gay are un glas propriu, mult mai ancorat în realitățile politice și rasiale ale Americii contemporane. Față de explorarea intensă a traumei fizice din romanul său An Untamed State sau de vulnerabilitatea radicală din memoriul Hunger, acest volum de proză scurtă îi permite autoarei să experimenteze cu tonuri diferite: de la umor sec și satiră, până la o durere mută, aproape insuportabilă.

Structura narativă nu lasă loc de relaxare; ritmul este alert, dar încărcat de o profunzime psihologică ce te obligă să te oprești după fiecare text. Este o explorare a ceea ce înseamnă să fii „dificilă” într-o lume care cere conformism, oferind o viziune hipnotică asupra legăturilor umane, fie ele bazate pe iubire, șantaj emoțional sau supraviețuire pură.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780802127372
ISBN-10: 0802127371
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 136 x 208 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Grove Atlantic

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această colecție celor care caută proză scurtă cu greutate emoțională și relevanță socială. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă neîndulcită asupra feminității moderne, departe de stereotipuri. Este o lectură esențială pentru fanii scriiturii lui Roxane Gay, oferind o diversitate de voci și situații — de la ingineri de succes la dansatoare de striptease — toate unite de aceeași dorință de a-și stăpâni propriul destin.

Despre autor

Roxane Gay este o voce proeminentă în literatura și critica culturală contemporană, cunoscută pentru capacitatea sa de a îmbina personalul cu politicul. Este autoarea bestsellerului „Bad Feminist” și a tulburătorului memoriu Hunger. Pe lângă cariera de scriitoare, a editat antologii de impact precum Not That Bad și a coordonat selecția The Best American Short Stories 2018. Opera sa, publicată frecvent în New York Times și Glamour, explorează adesea teme legate de identitate, corp, rasă și dinamica puterii, fiind considerată una dintre cele mai influente personalități literare ale momentului.

Descriere scurtă

A national bestseller from the "prolific and exceptionally insightful" (Globe and Mail) Roxane Gay, Difficult Women is a collection of stories of rare force that paints a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America.
Difficult Women tells of hardscrabble lives, passionate loves, and quirky and vexed human connection. The women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and, grown now, must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other. A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind.
From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay gives voice to a chorus of unforgettable women in a scintillating collection reminiscent of Merritt Tierce, Anne Enright, and Miranda July.

Notă biografică

ROXANE GAY is also the New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Hunger; the story collection Difficult Women; the novel An Untamed State, which was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize; the essay collection Bad Feminist; and several comic books in Marvel’s Black Panther: World of Wakanda series. She is a recipient of the PEN Center USA Freedom to Write Award, among other honors. She divides her time between Indiana and Los Angeles.

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'Phenomenally powerful and beautifully written' the GuardianThe women in these stories live lives of privilege and of poverty, are in marriages both loving and haunted by past crimes or emotional blackmail. A pair of sisters, grown now, have been inseparable ever since they were abducted together as children, and must negotiate the elder sister's marriage. A woman married to a twin pretends not to realize when her husband and his brother impersonate each other.

A stripper putting herself through college fends off the advances of an overzealous customer. A black engineer moves to Upper Michigan for a job and faces the malign curiosity of her colleagues and the difficulty of leaving her past behind. From a girls' fight club to a wealthy subdivision in Florida where neighbors conform, compete, and spy on each other, Gay delivers a wry, beautiful, haunting vision of modern America.'Gay brings the powerful voice that flows through her work as a novelist and cultural critic to the 21 short stories in her first collection .

. . Gay's "difficult women" are unforgettable' BBC.com'Gay's signature dry wit and piercing psychological depth make every story mermerisingly unusual and simply unforgettable' Harper's Bazaar

Recenzii

The stories, phenomenally powerful and beautifully written, demonstrate the threats so many women in reality face, but also how, whatever their situation, they have agency, resilience and identities away from stereotypes created and reinforced by men.
Roxane is a powerhouse of a writer.
Powerful . . . Gay's fantastic collection is challenging, quirky, and memorable.
Different to anything I've read before . . . Be warned, it can get a little dark at times, but the collection is worth it
A powerful, two-fisted collection with heart under its surface.
A writer of prodigious, arresting talent
Gay tells intimate, deep, wry tales of jaggedly dimensional women. . . . Be they writer, scientist, or stripper, Gay's women suffer grave abuses, mourn unfathomable losses, love hard, and work harder
Gay expands her writing prowess with this collection featuring colorful women protagonists . . . Refreshing yet intricate . . . This work will appeal to lovers of literary and feminist fiction
Unified in theme ? the struggles of women claiming independence for themselves ? but wide-ranging in conception and form . . . Gay is an admirable risk-taker in her exploration of women's lives and new ways to tell their stories
Astonishing, arresting, and staggering
Gay has fun with these ladies. Her narrative games aren't rulesy. She plays with structure and pacing . . . She moves easily from first to third person, sometimes within a single story. She creates worlds that are firmly realist and worlds that are fantastically far-fetched
Gut-wrenching . . .They aren't just characters. They are our mothers, sisters and partners. They are human. They are us . . . Difficult Women is not a collection of happy stories, but these are real stories about real experiences and women seeking, deserving happy endings. They aren't victims but survivors . . . Gay makes mosaics out of these women, seeing them as perfectly imperfect wholes in a world that routinely tries to break them down to pieces.
The great James Baldwin once said, "You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." In "Difficult Women," Gay achieves that goal. Her writing is unfussy, well matched to the women and men she's created, and she finds a distinct rhythm both elegant and plainspoken . . . In "Difficult Women," Gay gives these often-overlooked lives color and meaning. From a ramshackle Michigan trailer park to the affluence and ennui of a gated community in Florida - and myriad points in between - Gay writes of chances missed and unexpected joy, love gone awry or resurrected, and the slivers of hope that keep these fascinating women alive.
The women here are complex, but not in the typical way of fiction. Much like Mireille, the protagonist of Gay's profound and violent novel, "An Untamed State," the women here reveal themselves in how their minds adjust to a world that seems bent on violating their bodies . . . This collection begs for a slow, serious reading.
Dark, yes, difficult, yes, but also luminous, transporting, and totally worth the effort.
Gay's signature dry wit and piercing psychological depth make every story mermerisingly unusual and simply unforgettable.
Gay brings the powerful voice that flows through her work as a novelist and cultural critic to the 21 short stories in her first collection . . . Gay's "difficult women" are unforgettable.
Gay's writing encompasses so much-simultaneously direct, funny, whipsmart, sometimes painful, and always thought-provoking . . . Difficult Women [is] wonderful.