Leonard Michaels (1) (1933–2003)
Autor/a de The Collected Stories
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Sobre l'autor
Leonard Michaels (1933-2003) was the author of six collections of stories and essays as well as two novels, Sylvia and The Men's Club. His Collected Stories and novels are available as FSG paperbacks.
Obres de Leonard Michaels
Nachman from Los Angeles [short story] 1 exemplars
City Boy [short story] 1 exemplars
Occident: The Last Issue Spring 1975 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents the Art of the Short Story (2012) — Col·laborador — 221 exemplars
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Col·laborador — 72 exemplars
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Col·laborador — 62 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Michaels, Leonard
- Data de naixement
- 1933-01-02
- Data de defunció
- 2003-05-10
- Lloc d'enterrament
- Oakmont Memorial Park, Lafayette, California, USA
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Lloc de naixement
- New York, New York, USA
- Lloc de defunció
- Berkeley, California, USA
- Causa de la mort
- lymphatic cancer
- Llocs de residència
- New York, New York, USA (birth)
Florence, Italy
Berkeley, California, USA - Educació
- University of Michigan (MA|1956|Ph.D|1967)
New York University (BA|1953) - Professions
- novelist
short-story writer
essayist
professor - Organitzacions
- University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Davis
Paterson State College - Premis i honors
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1971)
Membres
Ressenyes
Sylvia: A Novel (FSG Classics) de Leonard Michaels
Good length. Good setting. Well written. People named Sylvia should be nicer to themselves.
This collection was published in 1989, and while there are good selections, it also feels very dated 30 years later, as most of the writing is post-1945. 1945-1989 was 44 years, and with another 30 post 1989, it's time for a new edition/a new anthology (and maybe one is out there, this book has been on my shelves for way too long).
So this book was certainly interesting, but dated. It's hard to put yourself back 30 years, and try to forget the events that are so obviously missing.
What is definitely missing, though, is much of the state. This book is heavy on Hollywood and San Francisco. A touch of Monterey, the desert, of Japanese and Chinese and black communities. But where is the Central Valley? Where are the depression-era emigrants who came from the deep south, Oklahoma, Eastern cities, looking for agriculture and then during WW2 industrial jobs? Where is the Valley of Heart's Delight, better known now as Silicon Valley--that transformation occurred between 1945 and 1989, yet is not here. Where is Mendocino County and the rest of the far north? Cesar Chavez is mentioned, but shouldn't there be an excerpt focusing on Latino agricultural labors, grapes, etc? Instead there is an entire section on "the kind" of dreamers who come to California, on weird "California" spirituality, on stereotypes. Disappointing.… (més)
So this book was certainly interesting, but dated. It's hard to put yourself back 30 years, and try to forget the events that are so obviously missing.
What is definitely missing, though, is much of the state. This book is heavy on Hollywood and San Francisco. A touch of Monterey, the desert, of Japanese and Chinese and black communities. But where is the Central Valley? Where are the depression-era emigrants who came from the deep south, Oklahoma, Eastern cities, looking for agriculture and then during WW2 industrial jobs? Where is the Valley of Heart's Delight, better known now as Silicon Valley--that transformation occurred between 1945 and 1989, yet is not here. Where is Mendocino County and the rest of the far north? Cesar Chavez is mentioned, but shouldn't there be an excerpt focusing on Latino agricultural labors, grapes, etc? Instead there is an entire section on "the kind" of dreamers who come to California, on weird "California" spirituality, on stereotypes. Disappointing.… (més)
Not a tragedy. Just a series of sad things. The style is accomplished, but there is no catharsis, and thus no purpose, in the author's sharing of his misery.
I treated myself to a three-month subscription from Big Green Bookshop in the hopes of getting something new-to-me to read. This one was the first book I received, in July. I liked it for being a book I wouldn't have picked by myself, and I found the language flowed and kept me going, but the aimless life of the narrator (who appears to want to be a writer but doesn't actually seem to work for it, and where does the money to pay rent and food come from?) frustrated me from the start and I wasn't really keen on reading about a dysfunctional relationship with a mentally unstable woman. But as a short novel and written in a style that kept going, I finished it quicker than I thought I would.… (més)
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- Obres
- 22
- També de
- 23
- Membres
- 1,061
- Popularitat
- #24,266
- Valoració
- 3.6
- Ressenyes
- 33
- ISBN
- 75
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 4