You Have Never Been Here: New and Selected Stories
A gothic short story about grief, memory, and the eerie persistence of art.
Work Information
A gothic short story about grief, memory, and the eerie persistence of art.
A gothic short story about grief, memory, and the eerie persistence of art.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Small Beer Press
- Published
- 2015-11-24
- Pages
- 320 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 13.97 x 2.54 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781618731104
- ISBN-10
- 1618731106
- Price
- 7767 JPY
- Category
- 洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Anthologies
Locus Recommended Reading List Open this book to any page and find yourself enspelled by these lush, alchemical stories. Faced with the uncanny and the impossible, Rickert’s protagonists are as painfully, shockingly, complexly human as the readers who will encounter them. Mothers, daughters, witches, artists, strangers, winged babies, and others grapple with deception, loss, and moments of extraordinary joy. Praise for Mary Rickert's books: " The Memory Garden is a lovely book of women, friendship, sadness and healing, and it is genuinely uplifting. Like the garden of its title, this is a book to take in slowly, to spend time in, to wander through; you'll likely find your-selves the better for it." NPR "This is a novel haunted by mortalitywith people who died young, with people now old and dying, with ghosts. But it is often a joyful novel, a novel of life, forgiveness and good meals with friends and strangers." Los Angeles Review of Books "I've seldom read a book as gentle, and yet as powerful." io9.com "Rickert writes with a blend of poetical language and dark suspense." The Washington Post "A poet of the extremes housed within the human heart." Locus Mary Rickert has long been an undiscovered master of the fantastic. Her first collection, Map of Dreams, received the Crawford and World Fantasy awards, and stories from this collection of new and selected work have received the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards. She has worked as kindergarten teacher, barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and in the personnel de-partment of Sequoia National Park where she spent her time off hiking the wilderness. She is the author of two collections and the novel The Memory Garden and she has received the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards. She lives in Wisconsin. See more at maryrickert.com.
Mary Rickert: Mary Rickert has worked as kindergarten teacher, barista, Disneyland balloon vendor, and in the personnel department of Sequoia National Park where she spent her time off hiking the wilderness. She is the author of two collections and a novel The Memory Garden . She lives in Wisconsin.
Reviews
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Each of these stories is a masterpiece of imagination. The writing flows almost poetically. I read this on my kindle, but I will be buying a hard copy; this a book I know I will read again and again.
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This story its own such conundrum, where a middle-aged woman deals with her mother’s Alzheimer’s in a care home, her brother’s erstwhile death, her lately broken marriage, her son’s own wish today to become a soldier thrown in the path of danger, and her own inescapably strange behaviour when given her mother’s bloodstones by her father, a gestalt, a story that is possibly the most oblique and most off-key I have ever read while being otherwise disarmingly meaningful and straightforward, a work now ever-resonating because of its mutual synergy with the blend of three authors whom I have also real-time reviewed in recent years: Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield and Ursula Pflug. Literature works anyway it can. Almost autonomously. The detailed review of this book posted elsewhere under my name is too long or impractical to post here. Above is one of its observations at the time of the review.
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This book is full of weird depth as Rickert conjures tales that are both melancholy and magical. Certainly, the impossible is possible in this collection, but really these stories bring to readers impossible hearts--broken, tattered, hopeful and above all loving. It is the chambers of the heart these people have lost, are living in--whether they realize it or not. Rickert has a wonderful ability to make stories both fun and hearty. I really enjoyed!
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Mary Rickert is up there with Shirley Jackson for me, and that's the highest praise I can give anyone.