People Like You
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| Rating | : | 4.40 (706 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0989302369 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 150 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Margaret Malone’s People Like You is a collection of short stories about your Naomi K. Ulsted Margaret Malone’s People Like You is a collection of short stories about your neighbors, the people you see in the grocery store, the obnoxious person in line at the coffee shop. Written over the course of 12 years, Margaret’s stories are sharp, funny and carefully crafted. They pull you into the lives of her characters, for better or for worse. Margaret’s characters aren’t always likeable, but each is trying to find their way through real situations of loss, or the kind of loss where you never had something in the first place. Reminiscent of Lorr. Not worth a read (unless you want insight into what it's like to be a jerk) I'm sure there's room for stories like this somewhere. There must be someone who can relate to this in some way or get something out of it. I am not one of those people. I love the idea of a woman writing stories about mundane details of women's lives, but the women depicted in these stories are, on the whole, loathsome people. Not the kind of loathsome people who reveal something essential about humanity or are humorous in some way, but the kind who are rude to the grocery store checkout clerk for no particular reason, bring children into the world without thinking care. Brilliant collection: Get a copy and you'll be reading straight through! WOW! Meg Tuite Margaret Malone’s debut collection, People Like You, is one of the best collections I’ve read in a hell of a long time! It’s hilarious, strong, visceral, and brilliant. These nine stories are peopled with authentic, fractured, questioning human packages trying to figure each other out with all our proclamations of what a day should look like and what it is that keeps us moving forward and why.I was pulling out quotes that I loved and then realized that any and every line is as exceptional and solid as the last. Malone has a manifold gift with language a
Finalist, PEN/Hemingway Award In this marvelously funny, unsettling, subtle, and moving collection of stories, the characters exist in the thick of everyday experience absent of epiphanies. The people are caught off-guard or cast adrift by personal impulses even while wide awake to their own imperfections. Every story is beautifully controlled and provocatively alive to its own truth.. Each voice will win readers over completely and break hearts with each confused and conflicted decision that is made
"A powerful debut by a writer of immense talent stories that shimmer and burn with beauty and sorrow, generosity and wit I love this book beyond measure.” —Cheryl Strayed, author, Wild