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Overview"""A Simple Tale"" is the moving account of Maria Poniatowski, an aging Ukrainian woman who was taken by the Germans for slave labor and eventually relocated to Canada as a displaced person. She struggles to provide her son Radek with every opportunity, but his eventual success increases the gulf between him and his mother. What of the past is she to preserve, and how to avoid letting the weight of that past burden the present? Maria's story is about the moments of connection and isolation that are common to us all. ""The Hunters,"" the second novella, is narrated by an American academic spending a summer in London who grows obsessed by the neighbors downstairs. Ridley Wandor, a plump and insipid caretaker of the elderly, lives with her ever-unseen mother and a horde of pet rabbits she calls ""the hunters."" While the narrator researches a book about death, all of Ridley Wandor's patients are dying. Loneliness breeds an active imagination. Is having such an imagination always destructive? Or can it be strong enough to create a new reality? Far-flung settings and universal themes give a sweeping appeal to Claire Messud's work." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Claire MessudPublisher: Cengage Learning, Inc Imprint: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc Dimensions: Width: 13.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.245kg ISBN: 9780156007313ISBN 10: 0156007312 Pages: 208 Publication Date: 26 August 2002 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsPRAISE FOR THE HUNTERS <br><br> Extremely well crafted . . . A literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation. --Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle <br> Messud's particular talent lies in her subtle crafting of the limits of the exile's inner world. -- Chicago Tribune <br><br><br>PRAISE FOR THE LAST LIFE <br><br> Ms. Messud has written a large and resonant novel that is as artful as it is affecting. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times <br> PRAISE FOR THE HUNTERS Extremely well crafted . . . A literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation. --Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle Messud's particular talent lies in her subtle crafting of the limits of the exile's inner world. -- Chicago Tribune PRAISE FOR THE LAST LIFE Ms. Messud has written a large and resonant novel that is as artful as it is affecting. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times PRAISE FOR THE HUNTERS <br> Extremely well crafted . . . A literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation. --Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle <br> Messud's particular talent lies in her subtle crafting of the limits of the exile's inner world. -- Chicago Tribune <p>PRAISE FOR THE LAST LIFE <br> Ms. Messud has written a large and resonant novel that is as artful as it is affecting. --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times <br> Author InformationClaire Messud was born in the United States in 1966. She was educated at Yale and Cambridge. Her novels include When the World Was Steady, a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award in 1996, and The Last Life, which was widely praised and has been translated into several languages. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |