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This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories - Hardcover

Johanna Skibsrud

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9780434021703: This Will Be Difficult to Explain and Other Stories
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0434021709 ISBN 13: 9780434021703
Publisher: William Heinemann, 2012

Synopsis

These loosely connected hypnotic stories about memory and desire showcase one of fiction's brightest new voices.

Taking readers from South Dakota to Paris, to Japan, into art galleries, foreign apartments, farms and beach hotels, Johanna Skibsrud introduces an astonishing array of characters in these piercingly wise stories. A young maid at a hotel in France encounters a man who asks to paint her portrait, only later discovering that he is someone other than who we think he is. A divorced father who fears estrangement from his thirteen-year-old daughter allows her to take the wheel of his car, realising too late that he's made a grave mistake. Time and again Skibsrud's characters find themselves face to face with what they didn't know they didn't know, at the exact point of intersection between impossibility and desire.

In This Will Be Difficult to Explain , Skibsrud, whose prose has been compared to Nicole Krauss and Marilynne Robinson, has created a series of masterful, perceptive tales.

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About the Author

Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two collections of poetry. The Sentimentalists, her first novel, won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award. She lives in Montreal and Tucson.

Review

"The characters in these note-perfect stories tend to make their most important discoveries by stumbling against them...The writing here is an absolute joy to read; clear, economical and condensed." -- Kate Saunders The Times "Funny, thoughtful and oblique, Skibsrud's stories explode with sudden meaning." Independent "What is it about Canada that keeps on producing some of the best short stories writers in the world? The latest of the younger generation and the most talked about is Johanna Skibsrud. It's a name that might be hard to remember, but her stories are difficult to forget." -- Christena Appleyard Daily Mail

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Publisher
William Heinemann
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0434021709
ISBN 13 
9780434021703
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
170
Rating
  • 2.72 out of 5 stars
    301 ratings by Goodreads