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Download * We Come to Our Senses: Stories PDF by * Odie Lindsey eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. We Come to Our Senses: Stories Original and compelling. More than worth the time of any serious reader. Original and compelling work. Lindsey's insights into Southern culture and human folly are fresh, instructive and captivating. He writes like no one else I have read.. SWD said An essential read.. Amazingly perspective, especially because the characters are so varied.. The stories are beautifully written, often shocking and always heartbreaking Martie Nees Record This is a novel of short stories about current day soldiers,
| Title | : | We Come to Our Senses: Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.19 (544 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393249603 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-28 |
| Language | : | English |
Original and compelling. More than worth the time of any serious reader. Original and compelling work. Lindsey's insights into Southern culture and human folly are fresh, instructive and captivating. He writes like no one else I have read.. SWD said An essential read.. Amazingly perspective, especially because the characters are so varied.. The stories are beautifully written, often shocking and always heartbreaking Martie Nees Record This is a novel of short stories about current day soldiers, both men and women. They have been hurt physically as well as mentally by combat on and off the field. I was personally the most affected by the stories where the women were the protagonists. The stories are be
Superb atmospherics coupled with arresting story lines.” (Kirkus (starred review))“Lindsey’s debut artfully portrays the American South.Lindsey’s lyrical, frenetic prose calls to mind Barry Hannah; and, like Hannah, he imparts a grim and pitying hope to his characters.” (Booklist (starred review))“I read Odie Lindsey’s We Come to Our Senses in a way that books rarely compel me to…Not only compulsively readable, the thoughts these war stories stirred were rich and complex and heartening in their universal humanity. This is a remarkable collection by a splendid new writer.” (Robert Olen Butler, Pulitzer Prize-winner and author of A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain)“Brutal, precis
. A veteran, he lives in Nashville. Odie Lindsey’s stories have appeared in Best American Short Stories, the Iowa Review, Columbia, and the anthology Forty Stories, among others
For readers of Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk and Redeployment, a searing debut exploring the lives of veterans returning to their homes in the South. Lacerating and lyrical, We Come to Our Senses centers on men and women affected by combat directly and tangentially, and the peculiar legacies of war. The story “Hers” is about the sexual politics of a combat zone.. The story “Evie M.” is about a vet turned office clerk whose petty neuroses derail even her suicide; in “We Come to Our Senses,” a hip young couple leaves the city for the sticks, trading film festivals for firearms; in “Colleen” a woman redeploys to her Mississippi hometown, and confronts the superior who abused her at war; and in “11/19/98” a couple obsesses over sitcoms and retail catalogs, extracting joy and deeper meaning
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