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Burning Ground : Stories by Adam O'Riordan (2017, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393239551
ISBN-139780393239553
eBay Product ID (ePID)234472448
Product Key Features
Book TitleBurning Ground : Stories
Number of Pages224 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2017
TopicShort Stories (Single Author)
GenreFiction
AuthorAdam O'riordan
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight10.9 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2016-059314
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsLovers are lost and mourned in these sharp and sometimes violent stories, and characters suffer through turbulence both literal and metaphorical, haunted by questions they never asked. O'Riordan is particularly skilled at finding the perfect image or detail to bring these worlds to life., These are subtle fictions, a work in which mannerisms and casual gestures count for a lot. . . . [A] work that feels fully lived in., These stories convey beauty, wonder and expansiveness. . . At the same time there is an ever-present consciousness that success is precarious, relationships unreliable, human flesh vulnerable and our suffering insignificant in the grand universal scheme., Never once reads like the work of a newcomer to fiction. . . . O'Riordan's noticing eye is sharply attuned to the grit and grime of Los Angeles and its inhabitants., The book is full of the stock characters of the classic noir detective genre--there's the drunken loser of a private eye, a long-suffering but resourceful widow and her plucky teenage daughter (who also happens to hate her), prize fighters, tough guys chewing on cigars and, of course, a beautiful and mysterious woman. But the characterizations, relationships and, notably, the dialogue he's created--a Feiffer specialty--are anything but stock in what is shaping up (PW got a sneak peak of the first 60 pages) as a lively and personal recreation of the noir genre in comics form., An impressive range of stories that run from reflective to highly dramatic, and O'Riordan's verbal polish as a poet shines., A quietly excellent collection of stories. . . . You are never in doubt that you are reading the work of an elegant and greatly accomplished writer., The most astonishing plot twist in this hard-boiled musical melodrama chock-full of shifting identities and relationships involves seeing Jules Feiffer--the old master who reinvented the newspaper comic strip in the middle of the twentieth century--now reinvents himself as an ambitious young graphic novelist!, Adam O'Riordan's stories have an uncanny ability to draw us into the lives of characters who are at once self-possessed and vulnerable. It means that we read about them in a state of excited anxiety--impressed by their worldly competence, but sensing that failure and even tragedy are never far away. The effect is compelling, and all the more so for being achieved through a range of forms and voices which make the collection as ambitious in its reach as it is concentrated in its vision of human behavior., A quietly excellent collection of short stories... You are never in doubt that you are reading the work of an elegant and greatly accomplished writer., An impressive range of stores that run from reflective to highly dramatic, and O'Riordan's verbal polish as a poet shines., This is a wonderful, beguiling collection of short stories. Written with a cool, knowing lyricism, they haunt and enthrall., This is a wonderful, beguiling collection of short stories. Written with a cool, knowing lyricism, they haunt and enthral., These stories convey beauty, wonder and expansiveness*... At the same time there is an ever-present consciousness that success is precarious, relationships unreliable, human flesh vulnerable and our suffering insignificant in the grand universal scheme., Jules Feiffer's Kill My Mother is a tribute to film noir and detective fiction....But Kill My Mother isn't mere pastiche. The story is a thoughtful meditation on female identity and whether the not-so-simple art of murder can ever be defended as a moral necessity. It is a story about stories, the myths we have to create in order to keep putting one foot in front of the other... I know what I think: Kill My Mother is terrific., Adam O'Riordan's stories have an uncanny ability to draw us into the lives of characters who are at once self-possessed and vulnerable. It means that we read about them in a state of excited anxiety--impressed by their worldly competence, but sensing that failure and even tragedy are never far away. The effect is compelling, and all the more so for being achieved through a range of forms and voices which make the collection as ambitious in its reach as it is concentrated in its vision of human behaviour., A quietly excellent collection of short stories. . . . You are never in doubt that you are reading the work of an elegant and greatly accomplished writer.
SynopsisA debut collection of stories by apoet with a "painter's eye for detailand pianist's touch for sounding theright notes" (Simon Armitage)., A debut collection of stories by apoet with a "painter's eye for detailand pianist's touch for sounding theright notes" (Simon Armitage). Moving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, The Burning Ground is a collection of eight stories populated by men haunted by their past and by their dreams, set against the canvas of California, where beauty and bleakness go hand in hand. In "A Thunderstorm in Santa Monica," a man's unmoored lifestyle is reflected back at him after a long flight. In "Black Bear in the Snow," a divorced advertising executive tries to rekindle a relationship with his son. And in the title story, "The Burning Ground," a painter is haunted by memories of his former lover. The stories take familiar roles--the deadbeat dad, the drifting divorcé, the wayward man--and bring them new emotional depth, peeling back the layers to reveal interiors both unexpected and arresting in their complexity. Written with a poet's lyricism and an outsider's keen eye, Adam O'Riordan's insightful work paints an intimate portrait of diverse male lives contending with the potential of the West Coast., Moving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, The Burning Ground is a collection of eight stories populated by men haunted by their past and by their dreams, set against the canvas of California, where beauty and bleakness go hand in hand. In "A Thunderstorm in Santa Monica," a man's unmoored lifestyle is reflected back at him after a long flight. In "Black Bear in the Snow," a divorced advertising executive tries to rekindle a relationship with his son. And in the title story, "The Burning Ground," a painter is haunted by memories of his former lover. The stories take familiar roles--the deadbeat dad, the drifting divorcé, the wayward man--and bring them new emotional depth, peeling back the layers to reveal interiors both unexpected and arresting in their complexity. Written with a poet's lyricism and an outsider's keen eye, Adam O'Riordan's insightful work paints an intimate portrait of diverse male lives contending with the potential of the West Coast., Moving from remote, sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach, The Burning Ground is a collection of eight stories populated by men haunted by their past and by their dreams, set against the canvas of California, where beauty and bleakness go hand in hand. In "A Thunderstorm in Santa Monica," a man's unmoored lifestyle is reflected back at him after a long flight. In "Black Bear in the Snow," a divorced advertising executive tries to rekindle a relationship with his son. And in the title story, "The Burning Ground," a painter is haunted by memories of his former lover. The stories take familiar roles--the deadbeat dad, the drifting divorc , the wayward man--and bring them new emotional depth, peeling back the layers to reveal interiors both unexpected and arresting in their complexity. Written with a poet's lyricism and an outsider's keen eye, Adam O'Riordan's insightful work paints an intimate portrait of diverse male lives contending with the potential of the West Coast.
LC Classification NumberPR6065.R684A6 2017
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