The Lonely Young & the Lonely Old【電子書籍】[ Tim Miller ]

＜p＞＜em＞The Lonely Young and the Lonely Old＜/em＞ is a collection of quiet and brutal jewels. Told in the words of an unnamed narrator, each story gives voice to the easily dismissed: the lonely high school student, the elderly widower, the pining woman in her twenties, and the worn-down mother in her mid-thirties. Each speaks from the center of an almost paralyzed intensity, desperately searching for articulation and belonging.＜/p＞ ＜p＞And there are others: neglected children who escape into the woods from their alcoholic mother and turn into deer; the couple who choose to leave their urban environment by transforming into swans on their early-morning commute; and the young man who encounters his double, the familiar doppelganger now carrying modern anxieties.＜/p＞ ＜p＞The concluding novella, "Bearing the Names of Many," takes the form of diary entries written somewhere in America a few months or a few years from now, as the narrator watches the world go under and descend into war and spre．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る