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Dagoberto Gilb
Woodcuts of Women
New York 2001
Stron 169, format: 14,5x21,5 cm
Książka wycofana z biblioteki: pieczątki i nalepki na wewn. stronie okładki.
Ilustracje: 10 czarno-białych drzeworytów
Stan niemal bardzo dobry
Dagoberto Gilb is an important voice in American fiction. These stories of working class, low-rent lives illuminated by the small pleasures of sex and drink and food and sleep and relief from the heat, stories of people with explosive tempers stumbling back and forth over cultural borders, of pregnancies and evictions and sudden love, of the end of the job, of dirty pillows and the scent of 'the burning skin of green chile,' of sharp sexual attractions and the hundred intimacies and antagonisms between men and women, are like no others. We need these stories."
-ANNIE PROVLX
Dagoberto Gilb's Woodcuts of Women is not just a man's
book of stories about women—it's a wonderful exhibit
of talent: great stories about men and women and the old
fandango, tango, cha-cha-cha of their dance together. These
stories are hard-hitting and heart-filling.The vision, like
the writing, is clear and sharp—a mix of Raymond Carver
and Anton Chekhov. But no one writes like Gilb. You finish
reading his book and you begin right then to wait for the
next one. He's that good."" —JVLÍA ALVAREZ
Like slashed works of art expressing startled lives, these stories cut deep. Dagoberto Gilb conveys both the theft of the soul and its miraculous endurance. This amazing writer has harnessed the lumbering beasts of impasse between men and women, between one culture and another, between hope and despair. They speak to us here in clean, anguished, inarguable language that is distinctly Gilb's own. Woodcuts of Women is completely contemporary, absolutely convincing, and nakedly real. '
—JAXNE ANNE PhiLLiM
Woodcuts of Women portrays men in the brightness of rage, lousy jobs, divine lust, and, especially, in the dazed sucker punch of love. Love, after all, is what this book is all about, love from the heart, and from that other needy vortex below the waist as well. Love 'that makes you sick like a flu.' Here is the Southwest without myth and sentimentality. And here are los hombres, with all their bravado and hungry hurt.^
—SANDRA Cif NEROf
In Woodcuts of Women, his first collection since the PEN/Hemingway Award-winner Tlie Magic of Blood, Dagoberto Gilb traces the cycles of desire and betrayal, longing and heartbreak—and pays tribute to the redemptive power of love.
Writing in a language that The NewYork Times Book Review has hailed as "a deft, ironic style that is all his own," Gilb weaves ten moving stories of women and men struggling to make their way in the world, each resonating with a poetic, aching beauty. In "Maria de Covina" a young salesclerk fights to maintain the love of his teenage girlfriend while enduring the temptations of the alluring older women he works with at the department store. In "Mayela One Day in 1989" an exotic and vivacious woman leads a bewitched man through one wild night in El Paso and into a gay bar where she tests the limits of her seductive powers. In "Bottoms" a writer struggles to turn in a review of an erotic novel on deadline while fending off the advances of a married Amazon-like woman he has met at his community pool.
Lush with passion, humor, and ultimately hope, Woodcuts of Women is a stunning tour de force, an unforgettable collection by one of America's foremost fiction writers.
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