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]]> Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:37:40 +0200 You Are Not A Stranger Here https://reference.library.land/adam-haslett/79832-you_are_not_a_stranger_here.html https://reference.library.land/adam-haslett/79832-you_are_not_a_stranger_here.html You Are Not A Stranger Here
EDITORIAL REVIEW: The publication of “Notes to My Biographer,” in *Zoetrope: All-Story *magazine introduced readers to the remarkable voice of Adam Haslett. Nominated as part of a National Magazine Award, broadcast on National Public Radio, performed at venues across the country, the story brought the author widespread recognition.Now, in his first book, Adam Haslett gives us nine richly varied stories, each suffused with intense emotion and written in a lyric prose alternatively lush and spare. *You Are Not a Stranger Here* carries its readers into the hearts and minds of people facing life’s most profound dilemmas. We meet an aging inventor still burning with ideas as he makes a final visit to his gay son. A psychiatrist’s encounter with a reluctant patient reveals a young doctor’s own needs and fears. An orphaned boy finds solace in a classmate’s violence. The return of an old lover disturbs the peace between a brother and sister who have lived together for decades.In settings that range from New England to Great Britain, from Los Angeles to the American West, the stories in this book treat what Faulkner called the old verities and truths of the heart: love and honor, pity and pride, compassion and sacrifice. They do so with heartbreaking precision and an often generous humor, drawing us past the surface of characters’ lives into the moments of decision and recognition that shape them irrevocably. Together these stories constitute a significant achievement by a powerful new writer.]]> Fri, 08 Nov 2002 19:37:41 +0200 Imagine Me Gone https://reference.library.land/adam-haslett/79831-imagine_me_gone.html https://reference.library.land/adam-haslett/79831-imagine_me_gone.html Imagine Me Gone
From a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, a ferociously intimate story of a family facing the ultimate question: how far will we go to save the people we love the most?
When Margaret's fiancé, John, is hospitalized for depression in 1960s London, she faces a choice: carry on with their plans despite what she now knows of his condition, or back away from the suffering it may bring her. She decides to marry him. Imagine Me Gone is the unforgettable story of what unfolds from this act of love and faith. At the heart of it is their eldest son, Michael, a brilliant, anxious music fanatic who makes sense of the world through parody. Over the span of decades, his younger siblings — the savvy and responsible Celia and the ambitious and tightly controlled Alec — struggle along with their mother to care for Michael's increasingly troubled and precarious existence.
Told in alternating points of view by all five members of the family, this...]]> Tue, 08 Nov 2016 19:37:41 +0200 The Remedy (Dark Corners collection) https://reference.library.land/adam-haslett/79829-the_remedy_dark_corners_collection.html https://reference.library.land/adam-haslett/79829-the_remedy_dark_corners_collection.html The Remedy (Dark Corners collection)
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