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Title: Bezoar: And Other Unsettling Stories
Author: Nettel, Guadalupe
ISBN: 9781609809584
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2020
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
Fiction 1210381
Publisher Description:
One of the most important and watched writers of today. Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following on the critical successes of her previous books, here are six stories that capture her unsettling, obsessive universe. Ptosis is told from the point of view of the son of a photographer whose work involves before and after pictures of patients undergoing cosmetic eye surgeries. In Through Shades, a woman studies a man interacting with a woman through the windows of the apartment across the street. In one of the longer stories, Bonsai, a man visits a garden, and comes to know a gardener, during the period of dissolution of his marriage. The Other Side of the Dock describes a young girl in search of what she terms True Solitude, who finds a fellow soul mate only to see the thing they share lose its meaning. In Petals, a woman's odor drives a man to search for her, and even to find her, without quenching the thirst that is his undoing. And the title story, Bezoar, is an intimate journal of a patient writing to a doctor. Each narrative veers towards unknown and dark corridors, and the pleasures of these accounts lie partly in the great surprise of the familiarity together with the strangeness.
Author: Nettel, Guadalupe
ISBN: 9781609809584
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2020
Binding: Quality
Language: English
Condition: New
Fiction 1210381
Publisher Description:
One of the most important and watched writers of today. Intricately woven masterpieces of craft, mournful for their human cries in defiance of our sometimes less than human surroundings, Nettel's stories and novels are dazzlingly enjoyable to read for their deep interest in human foibles. Following on the critical successes of her previous books, here are six stories that capture her unsettling, obsessive universe. Ptosis is told from the point of view of the son of a photographer whose work involves before and after pictures of patients undergoing cosmetic eye surgeries. In Through Shades, a woman studies a man interacting with a woman through the windows of the apartment across the street. In one of the longer stories, Bonsai, a man visits a garden, and comes to know a gardener, during the period of dissolution of his marriage. The Other Side of the Dock describes a young girl in search of what she terms True Solitude, who finds a fellow soul mate only to see the thing they share lose its meaning. In Petals, a woman's odor drives a man to search for her, and even to find her, without quenching the thirst that is his undoing. And the title story, Bezoar, is an intimate journal of a patient writing to a doctor. Each narrative veers towards unknown and dark corridors, and the pleasures of these accounts lie partly in the great surprise of the familiarity together with the strangeness.
