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Mendocino Fire: Stories, by Elizabeth Tallent
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The triumphant, long-awaited return of a writer of remarkable gifts: in this collection of richly imagined stories—her first new work in twenty years—the master of short fiction delivers a diverse suite of stories about men and women confronting their vulnerabilities in times of transition and challenge.
Beginning in the 1980s, Elizabeth Tallent’s work, appeared in some of our most prestigious literary publications, including The New Yorker, Esquire, and Harper’s. Marked by its quiet power and emotional nuance, her fiction garnered widespread praise.
Now, at long last, Tallent returns with a new collection of diverse, thematically linked, and deeply powerful stories that confirm her enduring gift for capturing relationships at their moment of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. Mendocino Fire explore moments of fracture and fragmentation; it limns the wilderness of our inner psyche and brilliantly evokes the electric tension of deep emotion. In these pages, Tallent explores expectations met and thwarted, and our never-ending quest to avoid being alone.
With this breathtaking collection, Elizabeth Tallent cements her rightful place in the literary pantheon beside her contemporaries Lorrie Moore, Ann Beattie, and Louise Erdrich. Visceral and surprising, profound yet elemental, Mendocino Fire is a welcome visit with a wise and familiar friend.
Mendocino Fire: Stories, by Elizabeth Tallent- Amazon Sales Rank: #307280 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Released on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x .93" w x 5.50" l, .78 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
Review “[Tallent] brings an immense complexity and dimension to the domestic affairs of the heart. At times, these stories almost veer toward the epic, emotionally speaking, and are reminiscent of the muscular, sharp-eyed narratives of the late Robert Stone.” (San Francisco Chronicle)“Elizabeth Tallent is, and always has been, a vivid, meticulous, and astutely inviting writer. These new stories vitally tell us how things are for us, in the most acute and memorable ways. Her ear is perfect; her gaze searing and unmistakable.” (Richard Ford)“Enchanting. . . . Immediately engaging. . . . The ability to create characters who force us to withhold judgment and leave us gasping at their absolute, solid reality isn’t the result of any special kindness or goodness on the part of the author. (New York Times Book Review)“Elizabeth Tallent’s style is so distinctive, and it’s the kind of writing I so enjoy, never obvious, full of complex thought and perception, so boldly ambitious.” (Tessa Hadley, author of Clever Girl)“In her fourth collection, Tallent explores the spaces between people through 10 expertly crafted stories. . . . Tallent’s collection offers a smart, thought-provoking study of desire and disappointment.” (Publishers Weekly)“Tallent’s assured voice is a pleasure to follow through this book. . . . An ambitious and wide-ranging set of stories that creates empathy for most of its characters due to Tallent’s generous imagination.” (Kirkus Reviews)“Driving, furious, erotic, gilded, the sentences flying at you like arrows...Her book is a meditation on the state of marriage.” (Tin House)“MENDOCINO FIRE throws sparks.” (Vanity Fair)“Tallent’s characters are most nearly themselves, because of or in spite of love, and that is the rich truth of this book.” (Oregonian)“Excellent. . . . In these stories, [Tallent] continues to explore relationships on the brink of transformation.” (San Jose Mercury News)“A good short story is a visceral thing, but it is rare to find stories as elegant, as perfectly made as Elizabeth Tallent’s, that put a scare into us. Tallent is a magician: her characters get sawed in half by life and stand up whole.” (Valerie Trueblood, author of Search Party and Seven Loves)“The characters in these stories have been around the block a few times. They are often exes. But they are no match for Tallent, who, in a finely articulated style, shows herself to be quite deft at throwing monkey wrenches into the machinery of complacence.” (Carol Anshaw, author of Carry the One)“The first pleasure here is the glitter and darkness of the prose only Tallent can produce; but the profounder gift in these stories is the author’s empathy, a tireless empathy, her knowledge of her characters’ peculiar entitlements and pangs and assumptions.” (Louis B. Jones, author of Innocence and Ordinary Money)
From the Back Cover
The long-awaited return of a writer of rare emotional wisdom
The son of an aging fisherman becomes ensnared in a violent incident that forces him to confront his broken relationship with his father. A woman travels halfway across the country to look for her ex-husband, only to find her attention drawn in a surprising direction. A millworker gives safe harbor to his son's pregnant girlfriend, until an ambiguous gesture upsets their uneasy equilibrium. These and other stories—of yearning, loss, and tentative new connections—come together in Mendocino Fire, the first new collection in two decades from the widely admired Elizabeth Tallent.
Diverse in character and setting, rendered in an exhilarating, exacting prose, these stories confirm Tallent's enduring gift for capturing relationships in moments of transformation: marriages breaking apart, people haunted by memories of old love and reaching haltingly toward new futures. The result is a book that reminds us how our lives are shaped by moments of fracture and fragmentation, by expectations met and thwarted, and by our never-ending quest to be genuinely seen.
Profound yet elemental, Mendocino Fire marks the welcome return of a sage and surprising voice in American fiction.
About the Author
Elizabeth Tallent is the author of the story collections Honey, In Constant Flight, and Time with Children, and the novel Museum Pieces. Since 1994 she has taught in the Creative Writing program at Stanford University. She lives on the Mendocino coast of California.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. 10 exceptional short stories By She Treads Softly Mendocino Fire by Elizabeth Tallent is a very highly recommended collection of ten short stories.The stories capture relationships and lives during times of transformation with clarity and insight into the complicated emotional landscape of all relationships. Tallent explores relationships between genders, with an emphasis on female relationships, as well as broken marriages. Many of the stories deal with creative people, writers, artists, or ecological/environmental activists. Several are set on university campuses or have a tie in to academia. Almost all of the stories involve exes, severed relationships, struggling relationships. The emotions run high as we hear the inner thoughts of the characters struggling to make sense of their lives, actions, obsessions, and circumstances. Tallent describes lives that are messy, with emotional fallout and struggles.All of these stories are extremely well written with exceptionally descriptive prose and phrasing. There are several passages I marked to take note of in my advanced reading copy. Tallent manages to capture the inner thoughts of her characters and their feelings with a clarity of emotion that is complete and realistic, but with a poetic grace and beauty of wording that often belies the raw emotions being expressed.I don't know if the page numbers will be similar, but the acuity and mental pictures drawn from some of her descriptions is astonishing. For example: "Tamped down love means not only sublimated energy but also a ranting, pointless impatience: before long, she's sick of obsession's two-lane Nebraska highway." (pg 79)Or: "It can't be true that she can't see in. That she can't know the story. This is her life she's been shut out of!"(pg. 97) And on the next page "Divorce is not linear. One morning there is peace of mind, the next there is wrath."Contents include:The Wrong Son - a young man in a working-class California fishing community has a complicated, combative relationship with his fatherTabriza - a man wonders if a valuable rug he dug out of the trash is evil and wreaking havoc on his third marriageMystery Caller - a woman places calls to her first husband but doesn't actually talk to himEros 101 - an female professor is obsessed/in love with her female studentNobody You Know - recently divorced woman travels halfway across the country and meets her ex's new, young wifeThe Wilderness - musings of an English professorNever Come Back - parents have their son's pregnant girlfriend and subsequent grandchild continue to live with them after the girlfriend takes offMendocino Fire - a young eco-activist grows up in an unconventional mannerNarrator - a young female writer falls for an older famous male writerBriar Switch - a woman's father is dying from lung cancer and she's has to drive through a blizzard to get to himDisclosure: I received an advanced reading copy of this book from Harper Collins and TLC for review purposes.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Ten Excellent New Short Stories by Elizabeth Tallent By C J Singh Reviewed by C J Singh (Berkeley, California)A few days ago, Elizabeth Tallent gave a reading of her story, “Mendocino Fire,” from her latest book at Mrs. Dalloway’s, an independent bookstore, in Berkeley, California. "Performed her wonderful story" about tree-hugging young conservationists is a more accurate description. Of the several leading authors I’ve recently heard reading from their latest work at Mrs Dalloway's, none comes close to her vivid performance.Of the book’s ten excellent short stories “The Mystery Caller” resonated with me the most. It complements one of her earlier stories, “No One’s a Mystery,” a much anthologized story we discussed in our writers’ group. That story is about an 18-year girl who has convinced herself that her seducer, older and already married, will marry her despite his repeated assertions of no such intention. “The Mystery Caller,” a woman repeatedly calls her former husband but stays silent.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful. What a talented writer tackling the troublesome subject of relationships . . . By M Denise Costello MENDOCINO FIRE: STORIES is a book of short stories by writer Elizabeth Tallent. Previously Tallent has written four other books, three other collections of short stories and one novel. Her last collection of short stories was published 20 years ago. Tallent has taught at Stanford University while her stories have been featured in a variety of journals such as The Threepenny Review and Boulevard.I had never read any of Tallent’s earlier work and was blown away by her wonderful style and subjects. Each story is a unique and different gem of good writing. The stories all center around some sort of relationship be it a father/son, husband/wife, boyfriend/girlfriend, girlfriend/girlfriend, etc. I found this book to be widely diverse in relationships and problematic issues. Tallent’s writing captures the subtleties and innuendoes and general nuances of a wide array of problems between two people.My favorite story from the book is probably “Tabriz.” This story is about a twice-divorced man who is remarried for the third time. This new wife comes out to him that she is really a Republican and he just can’t deal with it. Also involved is a rug he finds in the middle of nowhere and he brings it home. The wife just can’t deal with this strange object the husband found on his own and she has issues with this rug! Anyway, the story brings out all the little absurdities that people deal with and/or overlook in a relationship. So many of these stories bring out the give/take and quirkiness of people in general.This might not be fun to read when you are in the midst of relationship troubles, but I highly recommend these stories.
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