Do the Windows Open? (平装)
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品牌: Julie Hecht
基本信息出版社:Penguin (Non-Classics) (1998年2月1日)平装:224页正文语种:英语ISBN:0140271457条形码:9780140271454产品尺寸及重量:19.7 x 13 x 1.6 cm ; 196 gASIN:0140271457
商品描述内容简介Do the Windows Open? is a series of hilarious linked tales documenting the mania of the modern day in devastating detail-tales that have had readers ofThe New Yorkerlaughing out loud for years. The beguiling and alienated narrator-who finds nearly everything interesting and almost nothing clear-has set herself the never-ending goal of photographing a world-renowned reproductive surgeon, Walden Pond, the ponds of Nantucket, and all the houses Anne Sexton ever lived in. On the way, she searches for organically grown vegetables, windows that open, and an endodontist who acts like a normal person. She sometimes compares herself unfavorably to Jacqueline Kennedy, Hillary Clinton, and Princess Diana. What emerges is a unique sensibility under siege. This is a remarkably original literary performance, one that speaks to anyone looking for the refuge laughter offers from life in an absurd world.
** Julie Hecht is a recipient of the O.Henry Prize媒体推荐Ms. Hecht is a brilliant comic writer. The stories are breathtakingly funny, and over and over again I found myself laughing till I cried. Yet the laughs are unforced and unmanufactured; Ms. Hecht's narrator isn't a comedienne and she doesn't do shtick. Like other classic deadpan talkers (Tristram Shandy, Huckleberry Finn,Thomas Bernhard's narrators), she doesn't even seem to realize how funny she is. The tone is seamless and magnetic and remarkably gentle, even delicate. --The New York Times Book Review, Elizabeth Frank
