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All the Voices Cry

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"Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories."—David Bezmozgis, author of <i>The Free World</i> "Alice Petersen's <i>All the Voices Cry</i> is masterful and potent—incredibly satisfying for a reader."—Kathleen Winter, author of <i>Annabel</i> An academic’s wife, struggling to keep up with her husband’s quest to find a long-dead author’s Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlain’s astrolabe, and a brush with mortality—and finds at least the latter at <i>Danseuses 7 Jours</i>. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions. In <i>All the Voices Cry</i>, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen’s characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover.

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All the Voices Cry, Alice Petersen

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2012
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Titolo
All the Voices Cry
Lingua
Inglese
Editore
Biblioasis
Pubblicato
2012
Formato
In brossura
Pagine
160
ISBN10
1926845528
ISBN13
9781926845524
Serie
Descrizione
"Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories."—David Bezmozgis, author of <i>The Free World</i> "Alice Petersen's <i>All the Voices Cry</i> is masterful and potent—incredibly satisfying for a reader."—Kathleen Winter, author of <i>Annabel</i> An academic’s wife, struggling to keep up with her husband’s quest to find a long-dead author’s Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlain’s astrolabe, and a brush with mortality—and finds at least the latter at <i>Danseuses 7 Jours</i>. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions. In <i>All the Voices Cry</i>, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen’s characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover.