Woodpecker Point & Other StoriesNew Directions Publishing, 1988 - 153 σελίδες With this collection of twenty-four stories, New Directions introduces to American readers a wonderful new writing voice from Australia. Carmel Bird deftly walks the thin line between the ordinary world and the world of the imagination and the fantastic. As she has remarked: "When I read fiction I want the words to take my spirits into the places beneath the surface of the everyday world. I want the freshness of dreams to again be revealed to me." By turns Carmel Bird's tales are funny-sad, frightening-gentle, mysterious-matter of fact. Her prose is deceptive; lucid and seemingly artless, yet surprising--a left hook from a white kid glove. "Woodpecker Point," the center-piece of this collection, perhaps best evinces Carmel Bird's many special qualities in concert, above all her unique feeling for the materiality and color of things and for the mystery of the everyday. The assembled stories have been chosen from her first book, Birth, Death and Marriages (privately printed in Australia in 1983) on through her most recent work which shows in the concluding pieces, "Goczka" and "Every Home Should Have a Cedar Chest," a poetic dimension intimated in her earlier writing and now brought to full bloom. |
Περιεχόμενα
Boy and Girl | 1 |
The Balloon Lady | 17 |
A Taste of Earth | 33 |
The Right Stuff | 46 |
Introducing Your Friends | 61 |
The Enlargement of Bethany | 75 |
The Hair and the Teeth | 122 |
Goczka | 137 |
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Συχνά εμφανιζόμενοι όροι και φράσεις
Anna Pavlova Arthur attic Australorps Baba Yaga Baby Violet beautiful bees Bethany blanket blue boots brassiere Brigadier Brother Gregory cake cardigan Caroline carpet cauliflower cheese Cherry Plum child church colour conservatory Daphne dark dinner door dreams dress Emily eyes Father fingers floor flowers flute Gabrielle garden girl glass go to sleep Goczka Graeme grand-père grandmother green grey Groucho Marx hair hand Harry heart Iris Isabella kitchen knew lace Lisa lived looked Mags Maidenform married Mary Robinson Morning Glory mother Muriel never night orange passion-fruit peeping pink Piping Lane Plum pram remember Rosemary Sarah Bernhardt secateurs silk Sissy sister sitting skirt smell stared Stella sweet Tasmania teeth terrible things thought tomato pie took toy fact tree Valerie wearing wedding Wendy Wendy's window Woodpecker Point Yadi