Half in Love - by Maile Meloy (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Half in Love" is the widely acclaimed story collection that inspired "The New York Times" to rave, "A sparkling debut. . . . Here is an author who knows how to jump-start the reader's interest, " and the "Chicago Tribune" to name Maile Meloy "a truly compelling discovery."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Fourteen remarkable stories that combine strong Western settings with a subtle and distinct female voice. This critically celebrated debut collection marks the exciting beginning of prize-winner Meloy's promising career. <p/>Lean and controlled in their narration, abundant and moving in their effects, Maile Meloy's stories introduce a striking talent. Most are set in the modern American West, made vivid and unexpected in Meloy's unsentimental vision; others take us to Paris, wartime London, and Greece, with the same remarkable skill and intuition. <p/>In "Four Lean Hounds, ca. 1976," two couples face a complicated grief when one of the four dies. In "Ranch Girl," the college-bound daughter of a ranch foreman must choose which adult world she wants to occupy. In "A Stakes Horse," a woman confronts risk and loss at the racetrack and at home. And in "Aqua Boulevard"--winner of the 2001 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction--an elderly Parisian confronts his mortality. Meloy's command of her characters' voices is breathtaking; their fears and desires are deftly illuminated. Smart, surprising, and evocative, Meloy's brilliantly observed stories fully engage the mind and heart.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i></i>There are times when a writer nails a story the way a diver nails a dive....Half in Love offers up both plain speaking and mystery, subtlety and shock. That hole in the water marks where the final plunge of a story took your heart along with it.-- "The New York Times Book Review"<br><br><i></i>Tremendously beautiful. A writer not of promise, but with a fully realized gift.-- "San Diego Union-Tribune"<br><br>A sparkling debut.--The New York Times<br><br>Maile Meloy is a truly compelling discovery.-- "Chicago Tribune"<br><br>She's like Annie Proulx... She writes good stories in a very simple, pared-down style with a real sense of life and human beings in a beautifully simple landscape."--Helen Fielding "The Miami Herald"<br>
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