Título: Tacoma Stories
Autor: Richard Wiley
Sinopse: "Richard Wiley is one of our best writers. These stories satisfy in the way that brilliant short fiction always satisfies; one feels as if one has absorbed the expansive vision and drama of a novel. Read slowly, and I bet you'll want to read again." --Richard Bausch, author of Peace and Living in the Weather of the World "It's a strange and winsome feeling I have, reading Tacoma Stories, the blue sensation that Richard Wiley has made me homesick for a place I've never been, mourning the loss of friends I never had, in a life where each and every one of us is loved, however imperfectly. Think Sherwood Anderson inhabiting Raymond Carver's Northwest and you'll have a clear picture of Wiley's accomplishment." --Bob Shacochis, author of Easy in the Islands and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul On St. Patrick's Day in 1968, sixteen people sit in Pat's Tavern, drink green beer, flirt, rib each other, and eventually go home in (mostly) different directions. In the stories that follow, which span 1958 to the present, Richard Wiley pops back into the lives of this colorful cast of characters--sometimes into their pasts, sometimes into their futures--and explores the ways in which their individual narratives indelibly weave together. At the heart of it all lies Tacoma, Washington, a town full of eccentricities and citizens as unique as they are universal. The Tacoma of Tacoma Stories might be harboring paranoid former CIA operatives and wax replicas of dead husbands, but it is also a place with all the joys and pains one could find in any town, anytime and anywhere. Richard Wiley is the author of eight novels including Bob Stevenson; Soldiers in Hiding, winner of the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction and the Washington State Book Award; and Ahmed's Revenge, winner of the Maria Thomas Fiction Award. Professor emeritus at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, he divides his time between Los Angeles, California, and Tacoma, Washington.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Tacoma Stories”, de Richard Wiley, publicado pela editora Bellevue Literary Press, em 2019 e com 272 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Bellevue Literary Press
Páginas: 272
Ano: 2019
Edição:
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9781942658542
ISBN13: 9781942658542
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Bellevue Literary Press oferecem uma experiência de leitura marcada por narrativas densas que exploram a complexidade da condição humana em contextos históricos e pessoais. Muitas obras trazem personagens enfrentando adversidades como guerras, doenças e dilemas éticos, com um tom que oscila entre a reflexão profunda e a tensão psicológica. O catálogo privilegia textos que mesclam um ritmo contemplativo com momentos de intensidade emocional, frequentemente ambientados em cenários que vão desde o ambiente natural rigoroso até o interior da mente humana. A linguagem costuma ser elaborada, com atenção a detalhes que evocam imagens vívidas e contrastes entre luz e sombra, memória e presente.
