Daddy Lenin and Other Stories edition by Guy Vanderhaeghe Literature Fiction eBooks
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Bestselling author Guy Vanderhaeghe’s new book of fiction is both timely and timeless and showcases his supreme talent as a storyteller and poignant observer of the human condition.
Among these nine addictive and resonant stories A teenage boy breaks out of the strict confines of his family, his bid for independence leads him in over his head. He learns about life in short order and there is no turning back. An actor’s penchant for hiding behind a role, on and off stage, is tested to the limits and what he comes to discover finally places him face to face with the truth. With his mother hospitalized for a nervous condition and his father away on long work stints, a boy is sent to another family for his meals. His gradually building relationship with a teenage daughter who has been left handicapped from Polio opens unexpected doors to the world. In the powerful title story, a middle-aged man remeets his former adviser at university, a charismatic and domineering professor dubbed Daddy Lenin. As their tense reunion progresses, secrets from the past painfully revise remembered events and threaten to topple the scaffolding of a marriage.
With Daddy Lenin and Other Stories, award-winning author Guy Vanderhaeghe returns once again to the form that launched his stellar literary career. Here is a grand master writing at the height of his powers.
From the Hardcover edition.
Daddy Lenin and Other Stories edition by Guy Vanderhaeghe Literature Fiction eBooks
The one true successor to Alice Munro; he's the next master of the short story - this is Guy Vanderhaeghe at the top of his form. If I could say anything about the last story in the book that serves as the title, without "spoilers" - I would be on the staff of the NY Review of Books. I'll say that the introspection demonstrated by the lead, and all of the supporting figures, in Daddy Lenin haven't left me in the two weeks since I read the book in November, 2015. I'm certain I'll be thinking about the common threads for the rest of my life.A must read!
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Daddy Lenin and Other Stories edition by Guy Vanderhaeghe Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I am almost the same age as Guy Vanderhaeghe, and this is part of the reason these beautiful stories speak to me so personally. They are hardly autobiographical since they are told from a wide range of male (never female perspectives). However, the narrator of the first story, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, writes of being a teenager in 1970 and engrossed in Jimi Hendrix’s music. When he writes of older characters the references also relate to things that older people would see around them at his own age. What brings these stories closer to me, may perhaps distance them from younger readers, although I would be very surprised if a younger person wouldn’t derive pleasure from them.
One of the best of the stories, Koenig and Company, is about the quasi-romance between the male narrator and an older girl, Sabrina Koenig, both high school students, in a small Prairie town. Vanderhaeghe often gets a bad rap for writing only depressing stories about people with failed lives, but Koenig and Company is about a girl with an unpromising background and a physical deformity whose fierce determination turned her into an accomplished and successful artist.
Too little space to talk about every story one by one. Daddy Lenin is deservedly the title story. Vanderhaeghe has noticed how a mentor who has formed a person's mental landscape when they were young seems to command respect forever, whatever their failings or however shabbily they may have treated the person.
An interesting collection of short stories all concerned with turning points in lives under stress and resultant lost opportunities and redemption or lack thereof.
The one true successor to Alice Munro; he's the next master of the short story - this is Guy Vanderhaeghe at the top of his form. If I could say anything about the last story in the book that serves as the title, without "spoilers" - I would be on the staff of the NY Review of Books. I'll say that the introspection demonstrated by the lead, and all of the supporting figures, in Daddy Lenin haven't left me in the two weeks since I read the book in November, 2015. I'm certain I'll be thinking about the common threads for the rest of my life.
A must read!
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