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Vacationland

Autor Sarah Stonich
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 mar 2013

Simțim, încă de la primele pagini din Vacationland, o melancolie fină, asemănătoare cu cea a unui peisaj lacustru acoperit de ceața dimineții. Sarah Stonich nu ne oferă doar o culegere de povestiri, ci construiește un univers fragil în jurul Naledi Lodge, o stațiune din nordul extrem al Minnesotei care pare să supraviețuiască mai mult în amintire decât în realitate. Observăm cum Meg, acum artistă, încearcă să dea formă acestor fragmente de trecut, pictând imagini reflectate în oglinzile memoriei și ale apei. Imaginați-vă tensiunea și căutarea identității din Shelter, mutată într-un decor de stațiune izolată, unde liniștea este întreruptă doar de ecourile unor vieți care s-au intersectat efemer.

Spre deosebire de tonul comic și aventuros din seria începută cu Fishing! sau continuarea sa Reeling, în acest volum autoarea adoptă o perspectivă mult mai contemplativă și matură. Structura cărții, marcată de capitole cu titluri precum „Navigation”, „Echolocation” sau „Orientation”, sugerează o hartă emoțională pe care cititorul trebuie să o parcurgă pentru a înțelege cum trauma și speranța coexistă. Nu este doar povestea lui Meg; este un portret colectiv în care un refugiat din Sarajevo sau un pietrar Ojibwe își găsesc, pentru un moment, locul sub același cer vast. Considerăm că forța acestui roman rezidă tocmai în capacitatea de a transforma un loc geografic specific într-un spațiu universal al regăsirii, unde fiecare personaj, oricât de marginal, contribuie la textura densă a experienței umane.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780816687664
ISBN-10: 0816687668
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: University of Minnesota Press
Colecția Univ Of Minnesota Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm Vacationland celor care caută o proză de atmosferă, unde locul acțiunii devine el însuși un personaj. Veți câștiga o perspectivă profundă asupra modului în care geografia ne modelează identitatea și amintirile. Este o lectură ideală pentru cititorii care au apreciat A Song over Miskwaa Rapids, oferind aceeași explorare atentă a legăturii dintre pământ, istorie personală și secretele care refuză să rămână îngropate.


Despre autor

Sarah Stonich este o scriitoare americană apreciată pentru versatilitatea sa stilistică și pentru modul empatic în care portretizează viața în Midwest. Recunoscută pentru trilogia începută cu Fishing!, care explorează cu umor relațiile dintre generații de femei, Stonich demonstrează în Vacationland o altă fațetă a talentului său: capacitatea de a scrie proză contemplativă și nuanțată. Opera sa include și romane precum The Ice Chorus, unde explorează teme similare legate de vindecare și noi începuturi în decoruri izolate. Stilul său a fost descris de critici ca fiind o combinație neașteptată de detalii surprinzătoare și o narațiune fluidă.


Descriere scurtă


On a lake in northernmost Minnesota, you might find Naledi Lodge—only two cabins still standing, its pathways now trodden mostly by memories. And there you might meet Meg, or the ghost of the girl she was, growing up under her grandfather’s care in a world apart and a lifetime ago. Now an artist, Meg paints images “reflected across the mirrors of memory and water,” much as the linked stories of Vacationland cast shimmering spells across distance and time.

Those whose paths have crossed at Naledi inhabit Vacationland: a man from nearby Hatchet Inlet who knew Meg back when, a Sarajevo refugee sponsored by two parishes who can’t afford “their own refugee,” aged sisters traveling to fulfill a fateful pact once made at the resort, a philandering ad man, a lonely Ojibwe stonemason, and a haiku-spouting girl rescued from a bog.

Sarah Stonich, whose work has been described as “unexpected and moving” by the Chicago Tribune and “a well-paced feast” by the Los Angeles Times, weaves these tales of love and loss, heartbreak and redemption into a rich novel of interconnected and disjointed lives. Vacationland is a moving portrait of a place—at once timeless and of the moment, composed of conflicting dreams and shared experience—and of the woman bound to it by legacy and sometimes longing, but not necessarily by choice.




Notă biografică


Sarah Stonich is the author of the critically acclaimed novels These Granite Islands and The Ice Chorus, as well as a memoir, Shelter. The founder of WordStalkers.com, she lives in Minneapolis and spends summers in northeastern Minnesota.


Cuprins


Contents

Separation

Reparation

Destination

Assimilation

Moderation

Navigation

Calculation

Echolocation

Omission

Orientation

Disembarkation

Hesitation

Approximation

Occlusion

Tintinnabulation




Recenzii

"Vacationland showcases Sarah Stonich's incredible talent and ability to insert humor and startling details into the narrative without disrupting the story. Without flinching, Stonich leads the reader through the seemingly harsh and overwhelming landscape of northernmost Minnesota and reveals the heart of the characters that occupy it. In her capable hands Vacationland becomes a destination you'll want to visit again and again."—Kevin Wilson, author of The Family Fang
"Within Vactionland, Stonich collects the lonesome souls of a beguiling, timeworn place and gives us profound glimpses into their hopes and sorrows. By turns funny, haunting, and heartbreaking, she finds the universal in the specific, the deeply human in the parochial and peculiar."—Peter Bognanni, author of The House of Tomorrow
"In prose that is incisive and elegant, Stonich beautifully inhabits the hearts and minds of a richly diverse set of characters."—Cathy Marie Buchanan, author of The Day the Falls Stood Still
"Each chapter renders a story complete, and the stories together weave a deeply mined narrative of place and people, elegiac yet life-affirming."—Kirkus Reviews
"Stonich displays formidable narrative skill. While the novel presents brief vignettes in the lives of several characters, each interconnected story is given its own true, clear voice. Vacationland is compelling, witty, and nuanced, an incredibly enjoyable glimpse inside the worlds of seemingly disparate individuals. For fans of Richard Russo and Margaret Atwood, this is a brilliantly engaging novel, focusing on the power of memory, new discoveries, and shared experiences. A triumph."—Booklist, starred review
"A brilliant collection of linked stories centered around Naledi, a fictive northern Minnesota fishing resort. Naledi inherits in Stonich (“These Granite Islands”) a chronicler with storytelling gifts reminiscent of our most holy mother of the frozen north, Alice Munro. She has a similar flair for ferrying readers back in time for several pages, deepening our regard for a character, then softly dropping us back into the present without a moment’s confusion or jostling. Stonich is also funny as hell, not the easiest thing to pull off in serious literary fiction. "—Star Tribune
"With a wistful eye toward the bygone era of screen-door vacations, Sarah Stonich sets the thoughtful, atmospheric stories of Vacationland in and around one of these old-timey resorts near the Canadian border. Vacationland is a faithful representation of this harshly beautiful place, the way it affects the people who live there and the lasting impression it leaves on those that are just passing through."—Shelf Awareness
"Minneapolis author Sarah Stonich is adept at plumbing the complicated relations between townies and tourists. Despite having published three well-praised previous books, two of them set in Minnesota, Stonich has flown somewhat under the radar in her home state. Vacationland—out . . . just in time for cabin season—may change that."—Star Tribune
"Sarah Stonich's love of the people and landscape of northern Minnesota shines in her new novel, Vacationland, made up of interconnected stories about people who worked or spent holidays at Naledi Lodge over several decades. Every Minnesotan will recognize them. They are us."—St. Paul Pioneer Press
"Although it’s a work of fiction, Stonich’s Vacationland contains so many different lives that it goes a long way in correcting that, with characters that are admirable and pathetic, strong and moving. There and locals and there are visitors, and their stories become so intermingled that in the end, the northland belongs to all of them, and they all belong here."—MinnPost
"Stonich is a talented writer. The stories are by turn funny, moving and frightening. She moves deftly from past to present and her characters are full of surprises."—The Chronicle-Review
"Stonich had me at ‘Hello.’ Marvelous, marvelous writing is at work on these pages."—The Quivering Pen
"Sarah Stonich’s new novel, Vacationland, will be a familiar destination for anyone who has spent a week at an old-time lake resort or for all those teenagers who have spent a summer working as a dock boy, cabin cleaner, or bar staff. Firmly set in the border country of northern Minnesota, the book is a series of interlocking short stories chronicling the life and death and rebirth of a small rustic vacation spot."—Ely Timberjay
"How you can resist a novel with a name like Vacationland? I couldn't, and I found this book irresistible. "—Caroline Leavitt
"Stonich brings all of her characters to life with gorgeous, organic mastery."—City Pages
"There is such joy in reading this novel by Minneapolis writer Sarah Stonich."—Star Tribune
"Vacationland is compelling, witty, and nuanced, an incredibly enjoyable glimpse inside the worlds of seemingly desperate individuals. . . a brilliantly engaging novel, focusing on the power of memory, new discoveries and shared experiences."—Proctor Journal
"This isn’t a novel trying to wow us, or woo us. It’s a story that captures the human essence of a community, the gritty changes of passing time, and a main character who makes us work to get to know her."—Hazel Wren
"This book by Minnesota native Sarah Stonich reflects on pivotal moments in everyday lives, fleeting and precious and worth remembering – moments that resonate because we recognize ourselves in them, we recognize our own stories in the voices speaking in these pages, even if our circumstances are vastly different."—LitStack
"Stonich has a razor-sharp wit that brings to life the many characters in this quintessential Minnesota tale and will appeal to anyone who has ever spent time in the northland."—Isanti County News