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Beginning in the 1980s, Elizabeth Tallent’s work, appeared in some of our most prestigious literary publications, includingThe New Yorker, Esquire, and Harper’s. Marked by its quiet power and emotional nuance, her fiction garnered widespread praise.
Now, at long last, Tallent returns with a new collection of diverse, thematically linked, and deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for capturing relationships at their moment of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. Mendocino Fire explores moments of fracture and fragmentation; it limns the wilderness of our inner psyche and brilliantly evokes the electric tension of deep emotion. In this audiobook, Tallent explores expectations met and thwarted, and our never-ending quest to avoid being alone.
With this breathtaking collection, Elizabeth Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising, profound yet elemental,Mendocino Fire is a welcome visit with a wise and familiar friend.
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Review:
A good short story is a visceral thing, but it is rare to find stories as elegant, as perfectly made as Elizabeth Tallent s, that put a scare into us. Tallent is a magician: her characters get sawed in half by life and stand up whole. --Valerie Trueblood, author of "Search Party" and "Seven Loves""
The first pleasure here is the glitter and darkness of the prose only Tallent can produce; but the profounder gift in these stories is the author s empathy, a tireless empathy, her knowledge of her characters peculiar entitlements and pangs and assumptions. --Louis B. Jones, author of "Innocence" and "Ordinary Money""
Elizabeth Tallent is, and always has been, a vivid, meticulous, and astutely inviting writer. These new stories vitally tell us how things are for us, in the most acute and memorable ways. Her ear is perfect; her gaze searing and unmistakable. --Richard Ford"
In her fourth collection, Tallent explores the spaces between people through 10 expertly crafted stories. . . . Tallent s collection offers a smart, thought-provoking study of desire and disappointment. --"Publishers Weekly""
Tallent s assured voice is a pleasure to follow through this book. . . . An ambitious and wide-ranging set of stories that creates empathy for most of its characters due to Tallent s generous imagination. --"Kirkus Reviews""
The characters in these stories have been around the block a few times. They are often exes. But they are no match for Tallent, who, in a finely articulated style, shows herself to be quite deft at throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery of complacence. --Carol Anshaw, author of "Carry the One""
Elizabeth Tallent s style is so distinctive, and it s the kind of writing I so enjoy, never obvious, full of complex thought and perception, so boldly ambitious. --Tessa Hadley, author of "Clever Girl""
[Tallent] brings an immense complexity and dimension to the domestic affairs of the heart. At times, these stories almost veer toward the epic, emotionally speaking, and are reminiscent of the muscular, sharp-eyed narratives of the late Robert Stone. --"San Francisco Chronicle""
Excellent. . . . In these stories, [Tallent] continues to explore relationships on the brink of transformation. --"San Jose Mercury News""
Enchanting. . . . Immediately engaging. . . . The ability to create characters who force us to withhold judgment and leave us gasping at their absolute, solid reality isn t the result of any special kindness or goodness on the part of the author.--"New York Times" Book Review"
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The first pleasure here is the glitter and darkness of the prose only Tallent can produce; but the profounder gift in these stories is the author s empathy, a tireless empathy, her knowledge of her characters peculiar entitlements and pangs and assumptions. --Louis B. Jones, author of "Innocence" and "Ordinary Money""
Elizabeth Tallent is, and always has been, a vivid, meticulous, and astutely inviting writer. These new stories vitally tell us how things are for us, in the most acute and memorable ways. Her ear is perfect; her gaze searing and unmistakable. --Richard Ford"
In her fourth collection, Tallent explores the spaces between people through 10 expertly crafted stories. . . . Tallent s collection offers a smart, thought-provoking study of desire and disappointment. --"Publishers Weekly""
Tallent s assured voice is a pleasure to follow through this book. . . . An ambitious and wide-ranging set of stories that creates empathy for most of its characters due to Tallent s generous imagination. --"Kirkus Reviews""
The characters in these stories have been around the block a few times. They are often exes. But they are no match for Tallent, who, in a finely articulated style, shows herself to be quite deft at throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery of complacence. --Carol Anshaw, author of "Carry the One""
Elizabeth Tallent s style is so distinctive, and it s the kind of writing I so enjoy, never obvious, full of complex thought and perception, so boldly ambitious. --Tessa Hadley, author of "Clever Girl""
[Tallent] brings an immense complexity and dimension to the domestic affairs of the heart. At times, these stories almost veer toward the epic, emotionally speaking, and are reminiscent of the muscular, sharp-eyed narratives of the late Robert Stone. --"San Francisco Chronicle""
Excellent. . . . In these stories, [Tallent] continues to explore relationships on the brink of transformation. --"San Jose Mercury News""
Enchanting. . . . Immediately engaging. . . . The ability to create characters who force us to withhold judgment and leave us gasping at their absolute, solid reality isn t the result of any special kindness or goodness on the part of the author.--"New York Times" Book Review"
The long-awaited return of a writer of rare emotional wisdom
The son of an aging fisherman becomes ensnared in a violent incident that forces him to confront his broken relationship with his father. A woman travels halfway across the country to look for her ex-husband, only to find her attention drawn in a surprising direction. A millworker gives safe harbor to his son's pregnant girlfriend, until an ambiguous gesture upsets their uneasy equilibrium. These and other stories--of yearning, loss, and tentative new connections--come together in Mendocino Fire, the first new collection in two decades from the widely admired Elizabeth Tallent.
Diverse in character and setting, rendered in an exhilarating, exacting prose, these stories confirm Tallent's enduring gift for capturing relationships in moments of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. The result is a book that reminds us how our lives are shaped by moments of fracture and fragmentation, by expectations met and thwarted, and by our never-ending quest to be genuinely seen.
Profound yet elemental, Mendocino Fire marks the welcome return of a sage and surprising voice in American fiction.
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- PublisherBrilliance Audio
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1511309237
- ISBN 13 9781511309233
- BindingAudio CD
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