Sunstroke and Other Stories. Tessa Hadley
Everyday life crackles with the electricity sparking between men and women, between parents and children, between friends. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities; a boy becomes aware of the woman, a guest at his parents' holiday home, who is pressing up too close against him on the beach. A daughter remembers running away from home with her mother; two sisters from a family of nine vow together to grow up free from dreary women's problems. Hidden away inside the present, the past is explosive; the future can open unexpectedly out of any chance encounter; ordinary moments are illuminated with lightning flashes of dread or pleasure. These stories about family life are somehow undomesticated and dangerous.
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Risheng01-17While Tessa Hadley’s first story collection lacks some of the killing power of her latest stories in The New Yorker (“Coda;” “Dido’s Lament;” “The Bunty Club”), it’s an absorbing read all the same. Favorite stories: Sunstroke; Buckets of Blood; Matrilineal.
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Paprica08-16The Surrogate太棒了。。。
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