Season of Fury and Wonder

Sharon Butala

Coteau Books

2019

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9781550509762

Inglês

There are things that it is impossible to learn when you are young, no matter how much you read and study. The season of fury and wonder, in Sharon Butalas world, is the old age of women. These stories present the lives of old women women of experience, whove seen much of life, whove tasted of its sweetness and its bitter possibilities, and have developed opinions and come to conclusions about what it all amounts to. These are stories of todays old women, who understand that they have been created by their pasts. But theres another layer to this standard-setting example of cronelit. Not content to rest on her considerable literary laurels, Sharon Butala continues to push the boundaries of her art. The stories in Season of Fury and Wonder are all reactions to other, classic, works of literature that she has encountered and admired. These stories are, in their various ways, inspired by and tributes to works by the likes of Raymond Carver, Willa Cather, James Joyce, Shirley Jackson, Flannery OConner, John Cheever, Alan Sillitoe, Ernest Hemmingway, Tim OBrien, Edgar Allan Poe and Anton Checkov.