Terrarium

This collection will cement Valerie Trueblood's standing as one of the finest American short story writers at work today: gathered together for the first time are stories spanning her acclaimed career, presented along with her newest work.

Valerie Trueblood's writing has been praised by The New York Times as an exercise in literary restraint and extreme empathy." Selected here are stories from her previous collections - finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award and the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award - alongside her newest collection, which lends this book its name.

The new stories collected within Terrarium represent an exciting direction for the author: a condensing of narrative and, in some cases, a departure from it into another state of mind.

It's hard to describe any of Trueblood's stories as "typical." She does not write about people from a single class, or caste, or geographical area. She has not written a single story emblematic of her work. She does not write stories fantastical or eccentric. Ordinary life, her stories may be saying, is fantastical enough. She is more like Babel than Chekhov. In all her writing, it's clear that Trueblood believes that the short story can carry both the lightest and heaviest of loads. Terrarium highlights the achievement of simply living, the stories within often unresolved but in a state of continuation, expansion. Trueblood's stories aren't merely about their subjects, they're inside them."

Aceasta colectie va consolida pozitia lui Valerie Trueblood ca unul dintre cei mai buni scriitori de povestiri americani care lucreaza astazi: adunate impreuna pentru prima data sunt povesti care se intind pe cariera ei aclamata, prezentate impreuna cu cea mai noua lucrare a sa. Vremuri ca exercitiu de retinere literara si empatie extrema. "Aici sunt selectate povestile din colectiile sale anterioare - finalisti pentru Premiul PEN / Faulkner si Premiul International de Povestiri Frank O'Connor - alaturi de cea mai noua colectie, care ii da numele cartii Noile povesti colectate in cadrul Terrarium reprezinta o directie interesanta pentru autor: o condensare a naratiunii si, in unele cazuri, o plecare de la aceasta intr-o alta stare de spirit. Este greu sa descrieti oricare dintre povestile Trueblood ca fiind „tipice”. nu scrie despre oameni dintr-o singura clasa, sau casta sau zona geografica.