Ebook {Epub PDF} Here Until August: Stories by Josephine Rowe

"Here Until August tracks the shimmer of precarious moments and transient moods with devastating precision. In their steady excavation of intimacy, these spacious stories bring Alice Munro to mind. I underlined sentence after sentence as I read: for their beauty, their clarity, and their wisdom. Josephine Rowe is a breathtakingly good writer, and this is a marvelous book.". Here Until August sees Rowe return to the short story in full command of the form. The stories that make up the collection are idiosyncratic, multifaceted and exquisitely structured.’ —Australian Book Review ‘Here Until August is a powerful and intimate collection with beautifully drawn characters. Rowe’s writing is incredibly understated and restrained – she says so much with the smallest details.’Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins. Often, Rowe pierces through threatening clouds with humor, especially in her genuine, clever dialogue These expansive tales are bound to grip, surprise, and enrapture short–story lovers." —Booklist "Here Until August is extraordinary. Each of these stories delivers a fully, richly textured world: images that immerse, loss and longing and love and melancholy that suffuse the page, characters who live, and /5(10).

Josephine Rowe, in her second collection, Here Until August, tests this rule to marked effect. Instead of commencing near the end of an event, the 10 stories in this collection come as close as they can to a moment of life's re-beginning, taking the reader up to the precipice of change rather than its culmination. Here Until August tracks the shimmer of precarious moments and transient moods with devastating precision. In their steady excavation of intimacy, these spacious stories bring Alice Munro to mind. I underlined sentence after sentence as I read: for their beauty, their clarity, and their wisdom. Josephine Rowe is a breathtakingly good writer, and this is a marvelous book. Josephine Rowe is a breathtakingly good writer, and this is a marvelous book." ―Michelle de Kretser The stories in Here Until August follow the fates of characters who, by choice or by force, are traveling beyond the boundaries of their known worlds.

Often, Rowe pierces through threatening clouds with humor, especially in her genuine, clever dialogue These expansive tales are bound to grip, surprise, and enrapture short–story lovers." —Booklist "Here Until August is extraordinary. Each of these stories delivers a fully, richly textured world: images that immerse, loss and longing and love and melancholy that suffuse the page, characters who live, and sentence after sentence that astonishes. In Here Until August, a young man rows across an azure lake above a sunken town, carrying the ashes of his mother in a biscuit tin; an insular couple weathers an icy Canadian winter, listening to the comings and goings of their neighbours as they wait for spring; a taxi driver drives a once-drowned man cross-country; and a prodigal son returns home to a broken city. With these stories, and others like them, the internationally acclaimed author Josephine Rowe weaves a beautifully crafted. Here Until August is a stellar collection from Josephine Rowe. I knew this would be a book for me from the very first story (‘Glisk’) when two adult siblings, in an emotionally-laden moment, defuse the tension by quoting lines from the film The Castle (of the many options, I love that Rowe chose ‘scooped it out of the punnet’ to include here!).