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With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us eight unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last.
A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can’t seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day.
Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, compassionate in her humour yet never missing an opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history.
- Sales Rank: #1723083 in Books
- Brand: Coady, Lynn
- Published on: 2015-04-14
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .60" w x 5.20" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
Review
“Only a writer as wonderfully gifted as Lynn Coady could elicit such extraordinary sympathy for a man as full of self-destructive rage as Rank, her main character. You won't soon forget either him or this haunting novel.” — Richard Russo, in praise of The Antagonist
About the Author
Lynn Coady is an award-winning author, editor, and journalist. Her previous novels include Saints of Big Harbour, which was a national bestseller and a Globe and Mail Top 100 book, and Mean Boy, a Globe and Mail Top 100 book. Her popular advice column, "Group Therapy," runs weekly in the Globe and Mail. Coady is originally from Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, and is now living in Edmonton, Alberta.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Life is what it is, or not quite
By Friederike Knabe
Lynn Coady's new story collection, HELLGOING, brings together nine self-contained stories that take a realistic and thought provoking look at a wide range of human relationships in today's world. Reading them we are pushed or pulled into something like a voyeur role, observing in close-up fragments of ongoing or evolving relationships between an array of distinct characters, be they in couples, with family or friends, or crossing paths in professional or casual encounters. Some of the stories can take you on a bit of a rough ride; they rarely are smooth, easy or the content just pleasant. While they might leave us with a sense of unease they also stimulate us to consider more deeply the underlying questions and issues that the author raises. Are they a reflection of contemporary reality or, at minimum, of certain aspects of it? Very likely. Among the quotes on the book's back cover, one (by the National Post) reads: "...There is a searing honesty here about humankind's inability or unwillingness, to make an effort at connection, but the author's own humanity rescues her vision from descending into despair or nihilism." I couldn't have stated my reaction any better. If you look for romantic love or happiness, you will not easily find it in any of these stories.
One story from the collection has remained etched in my mind more than any of the others, titled, Mr. Hope. It is written from the perspective of a young female teacher, who, upon returning to her first school, is reliving intense childhood memories, among them her first encounters with her teacher, Mr. Hope. Lynn Coady exquisitely captures the feelings of a young girl, her anxieties but also her independent spirit. Interweaving the vividly reimagined child's perception with that of the hindsight of the adult looking back, the author tells a story that not only conveys narrative tension and inner drama, she convincingly brings out the girl's emotional confusion and conflicts in a way that will, in some way or another, sound familiar to most readers.
Among the other stories, some characters stand out for me more than others, such as a nun in a hospital who applies her counselling to get an anorexic girl with a religious obsession to take "some food". The title story tackles another important and well-known subject: deep and lasting family strains going back decades that the female protagonist cannot shake off. However, a "reunion" demands a different response so many years later. While all stories are written from the distance of a third person narrator, they do often cut through the surface of the characters' 'normalcy' and expose what lies underneath. Coady's stories focus more on the women's mental state of mind than that of their male counterparts. There is, for example, the young bride who has discovered that "twenty-something" sex is no longer adequate (or never was) and her new partner is a willing if somewhat reluctant participant in the new experiments. Coady pinpoints many of the ambitions and anxieties that younger women experience, whether in private or professional life. She is an astute observer of people and scenarios and her depiction of her central characters is not without a sense of humour or irony.
Canadian Lynn Coady, is with HELLGOING the recent winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2013 and a finalist for the Writers Trust Fiction Prize. [Friederike Knabe]
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Exquisite wording
By Larrie M. Thorne
What captured me about this book was not so much the snippets of stories themselves, but the emotion, intimacy, and understanding evoked by the choice and combination of words. This book represents the inner mind of the main characters rather than their actions or conversations. This is very different than anything else I've read. This is not a cheerful book; but, rather one that captures internal self justification and cynicism. I can see why it is an award winner.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Sharp, witty, voice-driven stories that resist quick interpretation.
By Ellen Elizabeth
I couldn't let this collection of sharp, witty, smart stories stand at three stars. No, these stories are not "easy"; their ends do not tie up everything that came before into a neat bow. For me, that's an enticement to read. I do not mind letting the stories work on me and doing my own mental work as a reader. Many of the characters are familiar to me (where they're at in their lives, the worlds they inhabit), and each story has moments of recognition--of "Yes, I know that moment or bit of human experience." Did I mention the humor? I laughed to myself or out loud each story. My favorite was the last one, "Mr. Hope" as I'm especially stunned by authors who can capture childhood/adolescence and "growing up" so well.
So if you need instant gratification when you reach the end of a story, no, this collection may not be for you. If you like books that thrive on voice, are excellently written, and ask that you let their stories settle into your mind, this is more than worth a read.
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