The new book by the author of Vértigo tells us about the difficulty of establishing true communication with others. Funny, unexpected, sarcastic, unrepeatable. This new collection of stories is the inclement and humorous harassment of Joanna Walsh to a subject: the isolation and the impossibility of connection with another person. The protagonists of these stories categorize reading habits according to the relationships of a small, somewhat envious community; or they wait for months in a foreign train station for their appointment to arrive; or they write an old letter to break a relationship at a time when people have learned to speak to each other with interjections. Imaginative in the choice of her formats and precise even when she names the most ambiguous affections, Walsh is an unrepeatable writer, only comparable to those teachers (from Kafka to Lydia Davis) who have given the short story the subversive capacity to think the unthinkable.

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The new book by the author of Vértigo tells us about the difficulty of establishing true communication with others. Funny, unexpected, sarcastic, unrepeatable. This new collection of stories is the inclement and humorous harassment of Joanna Walsh to a subject: the isolation and the impossibility of connection with another person. The protagonists of these stories categorize reading habits according to the relationships of a small, somewhat envious community; or they wait for months in a foreign train station for their appointment to arrive; or they write an old letter to break a relationship at a time when people have learned to speak to each other with interjections. Imaginative in the choice of her formats and precise even when she names the most ambiguous affections, Walsh is an unrepeatable writer, only comparable to those teachers (from Kafka to Lydia Davis) who have given the short story the subversive capacity to think the unthinkable.
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