作品情報

女性たちの孤独と秘密を、静かにすくい取る。

静謐な文体で女性たちの孤独や秘密、過去の傷を描き出す短編集。日常の細部と記憶の積み重ねによって、登場人物の内面に潜む強さと脆さが立ち上がる。

書籍情報

出版社

Counterpoint

発売日

1996-03-01

ページ数

342ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

15.88 x 3.81 x 23.5 cm

ISBN-13

9781887178105

ISBN-10

1887178104

価格

12309 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Short Stories/Single Author

Half the women in the world are right now in bed, theirs or somebody else's, whether it's night or day, whether they want to be or not...." In the title story of Gina Berriault's latest collection, an unsure young actress watches as wrenching changes take place, row upon row, bed upon bed, in the women's ward of a hospital where she fills in as a social worker. Finding there both kindness and harsh fate, she also discovers a reflection of her own life. Nine new stories are included in this collection of thirty-five. All are such models of economy that they seem almost telepathic. Berriault employs her vital sensibility - sometimes subtly ironic and sometimes achingly raw - to touch on the inevitability of suffering and the nature of individuality, daring to see into the essence of our predicaments. What moves us? What dictates our behavior? What alters us? These stories illustrate Berriault's depth of emotional understanding: the tragic loss of innocence in "The Stone Boy," where nine-year-old Arnold accidentally kills his brother with a shotgun; the pointed wit in "God and the Article Writer" where a man is first demeaned and then elated by his submission to the people he interviews.

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