Thirteen stories by the author of the critically acclaimed The Genizah at the House of Shepher address universal themes of yearning and displacemen...
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Jan 13, 2011
Leora
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My Library Journal review:
This masterly collection is far better than its awkward title would suggest. Set in England, Yellin's stories are about what she calls "the cruelties of time"-understanding that comes too late, love that comes not at all. Her characters include a translator whose international marriage has come apart, a woman explaining why she can't stand the uncle she visits weekly, a piano tuner whose craft abandons him, and a younger sister seeking her long-lost More...
This masterly collection is far better than its awkward title would suggest. Set in England, Yellin's stories are about what she calls "the cruelties of time"-understanding that comes too late, love that comes not at all. Her characters include a translator whose international marriage has come apart, a woman explaining why she can't stand the uncle she visits weekly, a piano tuner whose craft abandons him, and a younger sister seeking her long-lost More...
Jul 26, 2008
Blythe
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Best short story collection I've read in a long time. Written by anyone else, the subjects of these stories would be prosaic; Yellin reveals characters and situations most of us would never think warranted their own story. Yet when you're done reading one, you feel intimately privileged to have shared in the story. Mr. Applewick, the piano tuner, haunts me the most of all the characters. Read that story if nothing else.
Apr 05, 2008
Alice
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If you love short stories (and I do!), then make an effort to find this book. Not all libraries have it, but many libraries will get books for you from other libraries if they don't have it. The stories are wonderful, beautifully written, and the description of a certain kind of family quarrel is one of the funniest and truest descriptions of family dynamics that I've read.
Jan 23, 2008
Jessica
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A beautiful collection of stories. For once I agree with the blurb and don't find it overstated: "Yellin is a consummate stylist. Her sentences are to die for." --Jeff VanderMeer. All thirteen stories are excellent.
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