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Descending Fire & Other Stories
John Allman
出版New Directions Publishing, 1994
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Short Stories (single author)Literary Criticism / General
ISBN08112127429780811212748
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=wkHT2VBjAOEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The eight short stories in John Allman's Descending Fire comprise a loose chronicle in the lives of working-class and immigrant New Yorkers, from the 1950s to the present. The author describes his characters as people who, though they earn little money, are not quite poor - nor can they work without working hard. They do not know quite how to betray or abandon each other. Mostly, they try to love and do not readily shy from duty. Though Allman's narratives run from stark naturalism to the near magical and the out-and-out futuristic, his imagination holds to the everyday - as if to say to his readers: Yes, life is grim, but it is precisely the unbearable that becomes the fantastic and the ground for healing.