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- Title: Fresh Complaint
- Author: Jeffrey Eugenides
- ISBN: 9780374203061
- Page: 166
- Format: Hardcover
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I d rate this 3.5 stars.Ever since Jeffrey Eugenides burst on to the literary scene in the early 1990s with The Virgin Suicides, he s proven himself to be an expert commentator on the foibles of the human condition, sex, adolescence, relationships, family dynamics, and, at times, the often mundane challenges of everyday life He further cemented that reputation with Middlesex and The Marriage Plot, so when I heard that he d finally be coming out with a short story collection, I was excited to see [...]
Audiobook.I like Jeffrey Eugenides I enjoy his writing I loved MiddleSex.d I like The Marriage Plot much than most in my local book club But I m so so about these 10 short stories I was taken in right away with the first story Complainers Della and Cathy are friends Della is much older and married Della s husband runs into financial problems after making some risky investments which failed after he insisted that moving to Florida was the right move Cathy was angry with Della for even listening [...]
I d really enjoyed the author s novelMiddlesex where I discovered a dictionary s worth of words I previously had no knowledge of so the opportunity to read a bunch of short stories from the hand of this gifted scribbler was something I wasn t going to pass up All of these stories have been previously published in magazines in the period 1989 2013 I wouldn t say there s a common theme, though a sense of dissatisfaction with life or circumstance a desire for something that is absent seems to loom [...]
No one knew what the original music sounded like You had to make an educated guess and do the best you could Sometimes you thought you heard the music, especially when you were young, and then you spent the rest of your life trying to reproduce the sound Everybody s life was early music This collection of ten short stories covers almost three decades of Eugenides writing career, from 1988 to the present, and it is interesting to see how certain topics remain at the center of the author s interes [...]
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This superb collection of short fiction by Jeffrey Eugenides includes stories written between 1988 and 2017 The stories were all new to me I ve enjoyed Eugenides long fiction and was unaware he wrote stories as well The writing in this collection is terrific and the themes are hard hitting and intense.In Baster, a woman has a party to celebrate her insemination with donor sperm The ending in this story, as in many, is powerful and somehow so appropriate Find the Bad Guy is a story about a husban [...]
So disappointing I found the last story to be just insulting I expected better.
I was in Austin this past weekend doing a panel for Nasty Women Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump s America, but I had the first day of the festival all to myself One of the big events I d been dying to attend was the panel with Jeffrey Eugenides and Claire Messud It s a six hour drive from South Texas up to Austin, and I used the opportunity to finish listening to Fresh Complaint, a collection of stories written between 1988 to 2017 With the exception of the title story, most of the [...]
I ve loved Eugenides novels Middlesex is a lifetime fave but reading this story collection on the heels of work like Difficult Women and Her Body and Other Parties, the stories just feel tame, safe, predictable, and somewhat short on meaning The Gay and Marchado stories are so wild and raw and fearless and pull the very soul of of you for you to examine, while these are perfectly nice, well written, mildly contemplative stories Glad I read it, doubt I ll think of it again.
These were undeniably well written, but had an undercurrent of misogyny that I didn t like it s the same feeling I get when reading Updike see especially Early Music, Baster, and Fresh Complaint I also would have preferred if the stories were in date order.
2.5 stars To anyone who knows my reading life, it s not a secret that I usually don t care for short stories But Jeffrey Eugenides is such a good and interesting writer, that I couldn t resist trying this collection out I had my doubts going in this is a collection of 10 short stories and all but two of them were published in various periodicals ranging from the 80s to a few years ago Theoretically I think it s a good idea, because it allows an artist to make money for work they ve done througho [...]
Jeffrey Eugenides short story collection features a variety of stories written across the course of his career, many featured earlier in various publications in previous forms From the sperm switching antics of Baster to the complications of nationality and marriage in Fresh Complaint to money and morality in Great Experiment, we re treated to Eugenides usual excellent writing and perspective on characters and life I often skip story collections, as I tend to feel a loss with them, as if the tal [...]
My review for the Chicago Tribune chicagotribune lifestyJeffrey Eugenides new collection may be called Fresh Complaint, but the stories themselves are less fresh and retrospective The book consists of an array of material ranging from 1988 to 2017, including Air Mail, which was selected by Annie Proulx for the 1997 edition of The Best American Short Stories and Capricious Gardens, which began as part of his master s thesis.Better known for his long form fiction, Eugenides is the author of three [...]
This collection of stories was very hit or miss, but mostly miss The misogynistic overtones were disappointing from an author whose work I ve really enjoyed in the past.
Wow Jeffrey Eugenides deserves all the accolades typically heaped on Pulitzer Prize winners In my reading journeys, I ve often disagreed with these book jacket platitudes In fact, I ve found candidates for the prize usually better and skilled writers than the winners, but in Fresh Complaint, we find a scribe truly worth all the hype This is a compendium of Eugenides s work spanning three decades, and it shows his growth as a writer each story is a fresh world to step into, with characters as vi [...]
This is a wonderful collection of short stories from Pulitzer Prize winning author Jeffrey Eugenides.I had not read anything by this writer and was surprised he wrote The Virgin Suicides as I felt I should have known this already.I was not surprised by the quality of the writing which oozes warmth and compassion on each page He is a gifted storyteller who can take routine events and create lasting situations that reflect life in all its varied turns.I liked Air Mail for where it took the reader [...]
I am a big fan of Eugenides novels, and was so excited to see that he was releasing his debut collection of short stories, Fresh Complaint It is comprised of ten stories in all, written over three decades I must admit that I did not find any of these tales as engaging, nor as enjoyable, as I was expecting at the outset some even entirely failed to capture my attention Whilst they were well formed, they lacked any punch or surprise, things which I very much enjoy in shorter works Due to the span [...]
4.5 Jeffrey Eugenides is back Not only is he ahead of schedule, but he brought us short stories This is a wonderful collection that showcases his exquisite writing again and again Although his last two books were tomes, his impeccable character development certainly doesn t need many pages to bring his subjects to life.Fresh Complaintis made up of ten short stories over about 300 pages They take place between the 1980s and present day, all around the world There wasn t a bad one in the bunch, th [...]
Maybe I just don t find a collection of short stories as satisfying as a novel, but I found this grossly underwhelming I ADORED all 3 of Eugenides s other books Middlesex is one of my top 5 all time fave books But Fresh Complaint didn t do it for me the way I expected it too Still interesting, and good writing, but just not as compelling sigh
I need to stop reading short stories,I don t particularly enjoy them I was drawn in by the author though,having enjoyed all his other books.These are well written,with a few leaving you plenty to think about.Unfortunately I always feel cheated the story isn t longer,and there s no detail.My fault entirely.
I had trouble engaging in this novel It took me weeks because I hesitated to pick up these stories He s a great writer but these mid life stories are just so melancholy Just not the right choice for me.
I d wager that most people picked up this book with the same idea in mind Well, he s not a short story writer, but he doesn t publish new stuff all that much and I d like to get a Eugenides fix And this book surely provides Unfortunately most of these are like introductions, or first acts , than they are complete objects in and of themselves I enjoyed these first acts, but I wouldn t have stopped these stories so early.It surely comes from some desire to keep up with adapt the short story techni [...]
To err is human, Alexander Pope famously wrote And while I m uncertain whether or not this line was thought of by Jeffrey Eugenides when compiling the short stories that make up his collection, Fresh Complaint, it s the first thing that came to my mind We as people are flawed, we make mistakes, oftentimes leading to crisis of varying affect This recurring theme is prevalent throughout the acclaimed author s first collection of stories And while the results range from brilliant to not so much, Eu [...]
Jeffrey Eugenides writing has come a long way Who am I to judge that His ardent fan One of his ardent fans, who could not get enough of The Virgin Suicides or Middlesex or The Marriage Plot weakest among the three and yet, I loved it to bits One of his fans who cannot stop raving about his new book Fresh Complaint , a collection of short stories that shows family love, discovery of the self, adolescence, identity and what it means to be American well, not all the time through ten stunning storie [...]
I wanted to like this book of short stories by the masterful Jeffrey Eugenides so much than I actually did The stories collected here were written over a period of decades, which makes the references to times dates in the stories very confusing each story has the year it was written on the last page of the story.The best story, by far, was the title one, which was written in 2017 and is the last in the collection Skip the rest of them and read that one
Some of them were amazing.
Eugenides is such a great writer and I read through his stories quickly and quite happily until the last one In this climate, it felt particularly ill timed and offensive It s not sitting well with me at all.
Well this was a let down Apart from a few insightful, delightfully well written paragraphs, the stories are bland and forgettable Not particularly dark, not funny, nothing to think about for a second longer after you turn the last page Oh well.
Loved this collection of stories As I ve come to expect, Eugenides explored topics such as gender identity, the income wealth gap, in fidelity, and aging with sensitivity and care I was amazed at the depth he managed to give his characters in only a few pages Truly a master craftsman.
I have a complaint Jeffrey Eugenides doesn t write enough.Eugenides s first novel was published in 1993 Since then he s written two novels and this, Fresh Complaint, his collection of short stories There have been exactly nine years between each novel So I was excited when, after reading his third novel in 2011, I read in an interview with Eugenides where he said he would not take the normal nine years to publish his next work I tried to find that article, but was unable to do so So it only too [...]