Reviews for Extracts from Pelican Bay

The average rating for Extracts from Pelican Bay based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-08-04 00:00:00 Ron Gaudet Iii I Thought My Father Was God and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project = True Tales of American Life, Paul Auster True Tales of American Life (First published under the title: I Thought My Father Was God, and Other True Tales from NPR's National Story Project) (2001). The true-life stories in this unique collection provide "a window into the American mind and heart" (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices - male and female, young and old, from all walks of life and all over the country - talk intimately to the reader. Combining great humor and pathos this remarkable selection of stories from the thousands submitted to NPR's (National Public Radio). تاریخ نخستین خوانش: روز هفدهم ماه جولای سال 2009 میلادی عنوان: داستان‌های واقعی از زندگی آمریکایی؛ گردآوری و ویراستار: پل آستر؛ مترجم: مهسا ملک مرزبان؛ تهران، افق، 1387؛ در 679ص؛ شابک 9789643695040؛ چاپ دوم 1390؛ چاپ سوم 1393؛ چاپ دیگر: تهران، افق، 1391، در 600ص، شابک: 9789643698843؛موضوع: داستانهای واقعی از نویسندگان امریکایی - سده 21م فهرست: مقدمه؛ فصل اول حیوانات؛ جوجه اثر لیندا الگانت؛ راسکال اثر بیل هافمن؛ پروانه زرد اثر سیمونت جکسون، اژدرمار اثر جودیت بث کوهن، پو اثر پاتریشیا ال لامیرت؛ آواره ی نیویورک اثر ادیت تس مارکر؛ گوشت دنده ی خوک اثر اریک واین؛ بی اثر سوزان استرو؛ دو عشق اثر ویل کافی، خرگوش اثر باری فوی؛ کارولینا اثر کلی اونیل، اندی و مار اثر رون فابیان؛ و آسمان آبی اثر کرکی استوارت؛ نمایش، اثر مایکل اوپنهایمر؛ سرگیجه اثر جنت اشمیت ژوپان؛ فصل دوم اشیا: ...؛ فصل سوم خانواده، ...؛ فصل چهارم بزن بزن، ...؛ فصل پنجم دیگرا؛ فصل ششم جنگ، ...؛ فصل هفتم عشق؛ ...؛ فصل هشتم مرگ، ...؛ فصل نهم رویاها، ...؛ فصل دهم تاملات؛ ...؛ مجموعه‌ ای از یکصدوهشتاد داستان کوتاه واقعی ست؛ که در بیشتر آن‌ها ماجرایی ماورایی، نامنتظره، و معجزه‌ آسا، دستمایه‌ ی آفرینش داستان‌هایی خیال انگیز شده است.؛ «پل استر» نویسنده‌ ی صاحب سبک آمریکایی، در ماه اکتبر سال 1999میلادی، از شنوندگان برنامه‌ ی رادیویی می‌خواهند، که یکی از داستان‌های واقعی زندگی خود را بنویسند، تا در برنامه خوانده شود.؛ واکنش مردم اعجاب‌انگیز است.؛ «استر» بیش از چهار هزار نامه دریافت می‌کنند.؛ گویی هر کس، داستانی برای گفتن دارد، و «استر»، با روایت این داستان‌ها، جلوه‌ ای از آگاهی، اندیشه، و تجربه‌ های مشترک انسان‌ها را، از جنبه‌ های گوناگون، به نمایش می‌گذارند.؛ نکته‌ ی بسیار مهم این داستان‌ها، ایجاز است؛ گویی نویسندگان مجبور بوده‌ اند، حساب هر تک کلمه را داشته باشند تاریخ بهنگام رسانی 06/05/1399هچری خورشیدی؛ ا. شربیانی

Review # 2 was written on 2016-08-20 00:00:00 Michael Stephen Sanger In 2003 I bought a copy of True Tales of American Life, edited and introduced by Paul Auster. The copy was second hand and was inscribed on the title page To Fluffykins Bunny Love from the Rabbit with Medium Sized ears xxx I wondered who these creeps were. I tried reading the book and got bogged down around page 50 because it turned out that the true tales were all two pages long and relating wildly improbably co-incidences to which the only possible reaction was "oh yeah? you don't say so" with one eyebrow raised extremely high. I stashed the book on the top shelf of my tall bookcase and forgot it. In 2005 there was a minor domestic incident, the details of which I do not need to enter into, and I found myself staggering backwards into the said tall bookcase. It shuddered and some books looked like they would fall out but only one did. An edge of it caught my nose quite painfully on its way to the ground. It was True Tales of American Life. In a rage I packed it and several others up in a box and took them to the Oxfam shop. In 2008 I was holidaying in Devon (which is hundreds of miles from Nottingham, a very pleasant part of England). Naturally I was poking around the one bookshop in the pretty market town of Okehampton - it was one of those with stone floors and ridiculously narrow staircases to the various floors, and I turned awkwardly and sort of fell against one of the bookcases. Several books cascaded down around me and in great embarrassment I began replacing them. I noticed that one of these books was none other than True Tales of American Life. Whimsically, I opened it and looked at the title page, and there I saw To Fluffykins Bunny Love from the Rabbit with Medium Sized ears xxx Incoherent with the majestic profundity of this amazing occurrence, I explained to the woman serving in the shop that this very book was the one which had fallen on my nose in Nottingham three years previously. She raised one eyebrow, her left, and said "Oh really? You don't say so."