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Music for wartime is an impressive collection which i heartily recommend. It's one i will look forward to having on my bookshelf and revisiting for years to come. I'm a big fan of reading a story in between other books as a sort of palate cleanser.
Music for stories by rebecca makkai is a unique collection of 17 short stories. All of these have been autobiographical family vignettes. The theme of the holocaust which occurs in many of the stories has a very particular and rather horrifying meanin... Read More
The stories vary in length from a page or two to more than thirty pages. Just like a box of gourmet chocolates, when you dip into this short story collection, one is never enough. Kind of like a midafternoon snack, that is how i see short stories.
This is not to denigrate the stories in music for wartime, but to recognize the high bar she set for herself with the hundred-year house. Makkai does exceptional things with it, digging into her protagonist’s psychology and themes of basic human drive... Read More
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Quality
Interspersed with the main longer stories are shorter flashtype stories
A cellist dealing with the presence of a growing shrine on her property
In a few of them such as the worst you ever feel and found the book to be a little too short as the quality of the writing was so enjoyable
Signs suffering music and innocence are part of makkai’s stories the belief that anyone can know the suffering of another simpl... Read More
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And somewhere along the way the idea became serious became the seed of a great photographic series famous and influential artis... Read More
Competitiveness
A young boy plays a duet in his familys apartment with a famous pianist who has been imprisoned for years by a totalitarian government
In it an artist chapman meets with a friendi want to punch keith haring in the face hed joked and the friend had said do it
Other 5star tales can be found in other brands of poison and good saint anthony come around
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- This product had a total of 142 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 8 2023.
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The best short story collections contain a paradox while short in print length they can contain material of such complexity and meatiness thus requiring more effort on the part of a reader than novels of same size
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Usually there is at least one story that makes the eyes roll the impatience accelerate but not here
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Most of the other stories are based in the arts even tangentially with again an insiders observations
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Hard to know which id choose as a favorite so i wont even try
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We are only given their answers not the questions to which they are responding and some words have been redacted making it difficult upon first reading to decipher the identities of the speakers or the event they are describing
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Makkai is clearly experimenting with the short story form and her forays into fantasy such as couple of lovers on a red background are not particularly successful
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I received a free copy of music for wartime through netgalley in exchange for an honest review
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The latter include tales of dissident musicians and a few are inspired by the authors own family history in which the grandmother or grandfather in the story is memorialized with fondness
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