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HOPEFUL MONSTERS: STORIES By Hiromi Goto *Excellent Condition*
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- ISBN-10
- 1551521571
- Publication Name
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Type
- Paperback
- Number of Pages
- 176 Pages
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Width
- 5.8in
- Item Height
- 0.5in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- ISBN
- 9781551521572
- Book Title
- Hopeful Monsters : Stories
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Short Stories (Single Author)
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"Hopeful monsters" are genetically abnormal organisms that, nonetheless, adapt and survive in their environments. In these devastating stories, the hopeful monsters in question are those who will not be tethered by familial duty nor bound by the ghosts of their past. Home becomes fraught, reality a nightmare as Hiromi Goto weaves her characters through tales of domestic crises and cultural dissonance. They are the walking wounded--a mother who is terrified by a newborn daughter who bears a tail; a "stinky girl" who studies the human condition in a shopping mall; a family on holiday wih a visiting grandfather who cannot abide their "foreign" nature. But wills are a force unto themselves, and Goto's characters are imbued with the light of myth and magic-realism. With humor and keen insight, Goto makes the familiar seem strange, and deciphers those moments when the idyllic skews into the absurd and the sublime. From "Stinky Girl" The unbearable voices of mythic manatees, the cry of the phoenix, the whispers of kappa lovers beside a gurgling stream. The voice of the moon that is ever turned away from our gaze, the song of suns colliding. The sounds which permeate from my skin on such a level of intensity that mortal senses recoil, deflect beauty into ugliness as a way of coping. And my joy. Such incredible joy. The hairs on my arms stand electric, the static energy and the heat amplifies my smell/sound with such exponential dizzying intensity, that the plastic which surrounds me bursts apart, falls away from my being like an artificial cocoon. I hover, twenty feet in the air. Hiromi Goto is the author of the novels Chorus of Mushrooms (winner of a Commonwealth Writers Prize and co-winner of the Canada-Japan Book Award) and The Kappa Child (winner of the James Tiptree, Jr. Award). She lives in Burnaby, British Columbia.
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Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN-10
1551521571
ISBN-13
9781551521572
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Hopeful Monsters : Stories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Short Stories (Single Author)
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
176 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.5in
Item Width
5.8in
Item Weight
8 Oz
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Reviews
These are stories that, without resorting to too much supernatural trickery, truly deliver both a disturbing frisson and a psychological punch. --Quill & Quire, There is something odd, beautiful and often macabre in the tales of this Burnaby author. -Monday Magazine, There is something odd, beautiful and often macabre in the tales of this Burnaby author. —Monday Magazine, Stunning, like small diamonds adorning a beautiful hand. The stories' often weird endings take Margaret Atwood's technological fictions several steps closer to the macabre into a sort of "Twilight Zone" of postmodern family life that mostly features postfeminist women at their fickle witchiest. --The Multicultural Review, Hopeful Monsters is an invitation for us to reassess the "others" that we are so quick to sidestep in our daily lives-not simply the popularly denounced monsters, such as the sex offender, but also the smaller monsters, like the tyrannical boss, or the hostile neighbour. -Popmatters.com, The writing is sleek in its economy but pointed in its observation. Yet often a metaphor will bloom into something sublimely sensual. Goto knows how to take her characters into hard places. You won't like all of them-but you won't want to leave them alone. Gorgeous. -Now Magazine, The stories are loose, full of gaps and jarring disjunctions, but at the same time are marked by a poet's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable. Hopeful Monsters carries the genetic material of recognizable genres--coming-of-age story, immigrant narrative, feminist text--but it defies categorization. It's a hybrid entity for a hybrid time. -amazon.ca, The stories are loose, full of gaps and jarring disjunctions, but at the same time are marked by a poet's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable. Hopeful Monsters carries the genetic material of recognizable genres--coming-of-age story, immigrant narrative, feminist text--but it defies categorization. It's a hybrid entity for a hybrid time. —amazon.ca, The book dips like a diving rod into the nuances of tradition that separate and define generations. -The Rain Review of Books, The book dips like a diving rod into the nuances of tradition that separate and define generations. —The Rain Review of Books, These are stories that, without resorting to too much supernatural trickery, truly deliver both a disturbing frisson and a psychological punch. —Quill & Quire, There is something odd, beautiful and often macabre in the tales of this Burnaby author. _Monday Magazine, The stories are loose, full of gaps and jarring disjunctions, but at the same time are marked by a poet's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable. Hopeful Monsters carries the genetic material of recognizable genres--coming-of-age story, immigrant narrative, feminist text--but it defies categorization. It's a hybrid entity for a hybrid time. -Amazon.ca, The stories are loose, full of gaps and jarring disjunctions, but at the same time are marked by a poet's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable. Hopeful Monsters carries the genetic material of recognizable genres--coming-of-age story, immigrant narrative, feminist text--but it defies categorization. It's a hybrid entity for a hybrid time. --amazon.ca, The stories are loose, full of gaps and jarring disjunctions, but at the same time are marked by a poet's attention to language and the ability to find beauty and solace in the strange and unknowable. Hopeful Monsters carries the genetic material of recognizable genres--coming-of-age story, immigrant narrative, feminist text--but it defies categorization. It's a hybrid entity for a hybrid time. —amazon.ca, These are stories that, without resorting to too much supernatural trickery, truly deliver both a disturbing frisson and a psychological punch., Stunning, like small diamonds adorning a beautiful hand. The stories' often weird endings take Margaret Atwood's technological fictions several steps closer to the macabre into a sort of "Twilight Zone" of postmodern family life that mostly features postfeminist women at their fickle witchiest. -The Multicultural Review, These are stories that, without resorting to too much supernatural trickery, truly deliver both a disturbing frisson and a psychological punch. —Quill & Quire, The writing is sleek in its economy but pointed in its observation. Yet often a metaphor will bloom into something sublimely sensual. Goto knows how to take her characters into hard places. You won't like all of them—but you won't want to leave them alone. Gorgeous. —Now Magazine, Stunning, like small diamonds adorning a beautiful hand. The stories' often weird endings take Margaret Atwood's technological fictions several steps closer to the macabre into a sort of "Twilight Zone" of postmodern family life that mostly features postfeminist women at their fickle witchiest. —The Multicultural Review, These are stories that, without resorting to too much supernatural trickery, truly deliver both a disturbing frisson and a psychological punch. -Quill & Quire, One of the most compelling features of this collection is Goto's capacity to, with great sensitivity, recreate amd revision the discourse around monsters and monster making. —Swerve Magazine, The writing is sleek in its economy but pointed in its observation. Yet often a metaphor will bloom into something sublimely sensual. Goto knows how to take her characters into hard places. You won't like all of them--but you won't want to leave them alone. Gorgeous. --Now Magazine, One of the most compelling features of this collection is Goto's capacity to, with great sensitivity, recreate amd revision the discourse around monsters and monster making. -Swerve Magazine, The writing is sleek in its economy but pointed in its observation. Yet often a metaphor will bloom into something sublimely sensual. Goto knows how to take her characters into hard places. You won't like all of them—but you won't want to leave them alone. Gorgeous. —Now Magazine, Stunning, like small diamonds adorning a beautiful hand. The stories' often weird endings take Margaret Atwood's technological fictions several steps closer to the macabre into a sort of "Twilight Zone" of postmodern family life that mostly features postfeminist women at their fickle witchiest. —The Multicultural Review, Hopeful Monsters is an invitation for us to reassess the "others" that we are so quick to sidestep in our daily lives -- not simply the popularly denounced monsters, such as the sex offender, but also the smaller monsters, like the tyrannical boss, or the hostile neighbour. -Popmatters.com, One of the most compelling features of this collection is Goto's capacity to, with great sensitivity, recreate amd revision the discourse around monsters and monster making. - Swerve Magazine, Nature and civilized society are at odds in stories where anything, no matter how improbable to scientifically trained minds, can happen, and we believe every word of it. That we do is a testament to Goto's fine writing and confident tone. Hopeful Monsters is like the baby with the tail: weird and marvellous at the same time. -The Georgia Straight, Nature and civilized society are at odds in stories where anything, no matter how improbable to scientifically trained minds, can happen, and we believe every word of it. That we do is a testament to Goto's fine writing and confident tone. Hopeful Monstersis like the baby with the tail: weird and marvellous at the same time. —The Georgia Straight, The writing is sleek in its economy but pointed in its observation. Yet often a metaphor will bloom into something sublimely sensual. Goto knows how to take her characters into hard places. You won't like all of them - but you won't want to leave them alone. Gorgeous. - Now Magazine, Hopeful Monstersis an invitation for us to reassess the "others" that we are so quick to sidestep in our daily lives—not simply the popularly denounced monsters, such as the sex offender, but also the smaller monsters, like the tyrannical boss, or the hostile neighbour. —Popmatters.com
Copyright Date
2004
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2004-401522
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813/.54
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Dewey Edition
22
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