This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon
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Beschreibung des Verlags
This Road Will Take Us Closer to the Moon is a life in stories, the life of Margaret Mackenzie, a woman whom the reader comes to love. Weaving back and forth across the years, these stories invite us in, they tell us secrets, whisper mysteries, allowing us to know and feel deep joy, distinct sorrow, the silliness and rich meaning, in the living of one precious lifetime.
Its readers say:
“These stories won me over at once, heart and mind together.”
Alice Munro
“The storyteller is a poet, or the poet is a storyteller. You may not actually be wiser or happier after reading it, but you will believe that you are for a lovely glowing while. Finally, the book you didn’t know you’ve been longing for.”
Carol Edelstein
“That terrific and rare writer who can pair side-splitting humor with heartbreaking truth. She never ceases to make me laugh. She never ceases to make me cry.”
Sy Safransky, Sun Magazine
“I loved these stories. Profoundly serious, absorbing, deft, and rare.”
Edith Pearlman
“Like Raymond Carver, these linked stories attend unerringly to ordinary moments in ordinary lives. A life revealed in episodes, with breathless flights of imagination…..quiet, insistent, closely focused fiction.”
Brad Davis
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The linked stories of Moore's debut collection (after The Distance Between) add up to a singularly elegiac life-in-parts. Their subject is Margaret, a woman in the "late afternoon" of her existence. We meet Margaret in "That's a Fact" recalling a '50s childhood defined by WWII and family secrets, and follow her to emotional and physical infirmity in "Final Dispositions," as she is cruelly shuffled between institutions and surviving family members. The 12 stories in between concern truck stop diners, second marriages, Margaret's frequent clashes with her sister, and the hope of salvation and a better world beyond. Not much actually happens as Margaret meditates on aging and family but it happens to great effect. Sidelined by her class, confined by limited opportunity and an overriding sense of her own mediocrity, Margaret tries hard not to resent the wider world ("however much my whole life's a flagrant failure, at least I am not them") or the alternate lives she sees in the eyes of ex-lovers and dormant friendships. Cleverly arranged to undermine Margaret's sense that "America is what you read about in school," these autumnal reveries and missed chances have the feel of immediate classics.
