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Married Love And Other Stories (2012)

by Tessa Hadley(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0062135643 (ISBN13: 9780062135643)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Harper Perennial

review 1: This collection of short stories holds a purity and clarity that is impressive but sometimes a little cold. Her characters are detached and self contained, regarding each other from their separate worlds. Relationships between people are sporadic and short lived, the natural order seems to be of individuals locked away from each other with only brief moments of connection. The writing is precisely honest but I found the total lack of empathy within the stories left me less satisfied than I had been with her novels. The characters in the novels were just as disengaged emotionally but I could become more attached to them because of the length of time given to them in a novel. The brief glimpse of disparate characters within the short stories is not enough to enter their worl... mored. However I still loved this book and it will stay on my shelf.
review 2: As always, difficult for me to express how much I love Tessa Hadley's work. For me, she's pretty much the ideal fiction writer--her short stories, in particular (though I adore her novels too) are little worlds, full of what she calls "the deep-ocean trenches" of emotion, dread, sex. Those ocean-deep places occur again and again in these stories (especially in my favorites, "Journey Home," "In the Country," and "In the Cave"); coming to them is like rounding a corner and finding something both utterly familiar and utterly strange, startling and surprising and completely recognizable. She's a writer who teaches me better who I am. less

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