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A collection that features the following stories: A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that he is someone other than who we think he is; and, more.
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Her prose is a taut as Alice Munro's, her plot's as spare as Mavis Gallant's . . . A collection of nine short stories . . . just as assured [as her novel] and it has the same emotional punch.
...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world- historical resignation...gives Skibsrud s collection its potency. --Jessica Loudis
[Johanna Skibsrud s] prose is as taut as Alice Munro s, her plots as spare as Mavis Gallant s. Her characters have startlingly vivid inner lives Skibsrud s new book is just as assured [as her novel], and it has the same emotional punch."
...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world-historical resignation...gives Skibsrud s collection its potency.--Jessica Loudis"
[Johanna Skibsrud's] prose is as taut as Alice Munro's, her plots as spare as Mavis Gallant's. Her characters have startlingly vivid inner lives...Skibsrud's new book is just as assured [as her novel], and it has the same emotional punch.
...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world--historical resignation...gives Skibsrud's collection its potency.--Jessica Loudis
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...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world- historical resignation...gives Skibsrud s collection its potency. --Jessica Loudis
[Johanna Skibsrud s] prose is as taut as Alice Munro s, her plots as spare as Mavis Gallant s. Her characters have startlingly vivid inner lives Skibsrud s new book is just as assured [as her novel], and it has the same emotional punch."
...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world-historical resignation...gives Skibsrud s collection its potency.--Jessica Loudis"
[Johanna Skibsrud's] prose is as taut as Alice Munro's, her plots as spare as Mavis Gallant's. Her characters have startlingly vivid inner lives...Skibsrud's new book is just as assured [as her novel], and it has the same emotional punch.
...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world--historical resignation...gives Skibsrud's collection its potency.--Jessica Loudis
A wonderful collection of insightful and masterfully crafted stories from the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize-winner
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Co.
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0393073750
- ISBN 13 9780393073751
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages169
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