编辑推荐
"Cummins writes deep, from the gut - a refreshing change from
all the brainy brawn out there." (Elle )"Strong if uneven: the
emerging voice of a new talent to watch." (Kirkus Reviews )"Cummins
will deservedly gain more appreciative fans with this finely
wrought collection." (Booklist, ALA )"Cummins' writing is both
gritty and polished...This debut collection is haunting, and leaves
the reader wanting more." (The Seattle Times )"Overall these
stories emanate suspense, inspiring page-turning tension that
nudges the reader from one tale to the next." (The Washington Times
)"Brilliantly imagined prose that boasts surprises like small
electric shocks." (The San Francisco Chronicle )"Cummins speaks
through [her characters] instead so we hear their woe loud and
clear." (Entertainment Weekly )"[Cummins'] dark, offbeat style and
ability to make the reader uncomfortable are on full
display...Clever and entertaining experiments." (Publishers Weekly
)
内容简介
Denis Johnson meets Flannery O'Connor in this luminous
collection of short stories about the collision of cultures,
genders, and generations in the American Southwest. Set mainly amid
Indian reservations and uranium mills, these twelve stories create
a kaleidoscopic view of family, myth, love, landscape, and loss in
a place where infinite skies and endless roads suggest a world of
possibility, yet dreams are deceiving, like an oasis, just beyond
reach. Whether it's a young woman pushed quite literally to the
edge on a desolate mountain pass, an orphaned brother and sister
trying to patch together an existence one stitch at a time, a cop
who suspects his kleptomaniac wife is stealing from other people
materially and emotionally or a wily roadside hypnotist whose
alleged power is both wonderful and strange, Ann Cummins's
characters want to transcend the circumstances of their lives, to
believe in the eventuality of change. Again and again, Ann Cummins
generates imagery of white-hot intensity and pushes the limits of
both the human spirit and the short story form. Gritty, seductive,
and always daring, this unforgettable debut collection puts forth a
haunting new vision of hope and heartache in contemporary America
and confirms the arrival of an important new voice.
作者简介
A graduate of the Johns Hopkins University and the University
of Arizona writing programs, Ann Cummins has had her stories
published in The New Yorker, McSweeney"s, Quarterly West, and the
Sonora Review, among other publications, as well as The Best
American Short Stories 2002. The recipient of a Lannan fellowship,
she divides her time between Oakland, California, where she lives
with her husband, and Flagstaff, Arizona, where she teaches
creative writing at Northern Arizona University.e lives in Oakland,
California.