This Will Be Difficult to Explain
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This Will Be Difficult to Explain by Johanna Skibsrud
In the Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning author Johanna Skibsrud's new book, nine loosely connected and hypnotic stories introduce an unforgettable cast of characters. A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that the man is someone other than who she thinks. A divorced father, fearing estrangement from his thirteen-year-old daughter, allows her to take the wheel of his car, realizing too late that he's made a grave mistake. A Canadian girl and her French host stumble on the one story that transcends their language barrier. Youth confronted with the mutterings of old age, restlessness bounded by the muddy confines of a backyard garden, callow hope coming up against the exigencies of everyday life-these are life-defining moments that weave throughout the everyday lives of the remarkable characters in this book. Time and again they find themselves confronted with what they didn't know they didn't know, at the exact point of intersection between impossibility and desire. In This Will Be Difficult to Explain Skibsrud has created a series of masterful, perceptive tales.
[Johanna Skibsrud's] prose is as taut as Alice Munro's, her plots as spare as Mavis Gallant'sHer characters have startlingly vivid inner lives...Skibsrud's new book is just as assured [as her novel], and it has the same emotional punch. -- Toronto Life
...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world- historical resignation...gives Skibsrud's collection its potency. -- Jessica Loudis - New York Times Book Review
...[T]his subtle mixture of melancholy and world- historical resignation...gives Skibsrud's collection its potency. -- Jessica Loudis - New York Times Book Review
Johanna Skibsrud is the author of The Sentimentalists, winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and This Will Be Difficult to Explain, as well as two poetry collections. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780393073751 |
| ISBN 10 | 0393073750 |
| Titel | This Will Be Difficult to Explain |
| Autor | Johanna Skibsrud |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Verlag | WW Norton & Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2012-12-24 |
| Seitenanzahl | 176 |
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