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Rebecca Miller Hardcover 2022 Total Stories Collection

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Reviews: "A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Alluring . . . These stories are full of surprises." -- Publishers Weekly, "Miller's new collection shows her in many moods and modes, from wistful to comedic to speculative. What a pleasure!" -- Jeffrey Eugenides , author of Fresh Complaint "Slim but powerful . . . Author and filmmaker Miller ( Jacob's Folly, 2013) adeptly encapsulates these women's experiences." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Disarmingly matter-of-fact . . . A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "In Miller's alluring collection (after the novel Jacob's Folly), protagonists search for connection and pleasure in strange, sometimes destructive ways . . . Miller brings a cinematic eye to her descriptions (a parking garage's 'final floor' offers a 'vivid sky') and plenty of drama to the situations. These stories are full of surprises." -- Publishers Weekly, "Miller's new collection shows her in many moods and modes, from wistful to comedic to speculative. What a pleasure!" -- Jeffrey Eugenides , author of Fresh Complaint "A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Alluring . . . These stories are full of surprises." -- Publishers Weekly, "A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review), "Miller's new collection shows her in many moods and modes, from wistful to comedic to speculative. What a pleasure!" -- Jeffrey Eugenides , author of Fresh Complaint "Slim but powerful . . . Author and filmmaker Miller ( Jacob's Folly, 2013) adeptly encapsulates these women's experiences." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "Alluring . . . These stories are full of surprises." -- Publishers Weekly, "Miller's new collection shows her in many moods and modes, from wistful to comedic to speculative. What a pleasure!" -- Jeffrey Eugenides , author of Fresh Complaint "Slim but powerful . . . Author and filmmaker Miller ( Jacob's Folly, 2013) adeptly encapsulates these women's experiences." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Disarmingly matter-of-fact . . . A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "The seven brilliantly knotty and piercingly intimate stories in Total depict characters undone, temporarily or irreparably, by obsessive love." --Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In Miller's alluring collection (after the novel Jacob's Folly), protagonists search for connection and pleasure in strange, sometimes destructive ways . . . Miller brings a cinematic eye to her descriptions (a parking garage's 'final floor' offers a 'vivid sky') and plenty of drama to the situations. These stories are full of surprises." -- Publishers Weekly, "Miller is cognizant of the complexity that can still breathe inside familiar stories. She helps us reconsider their elasticity, to see from different angles how they pulse with life . . . You've never quite seen them inhabited by these versions of these characters, nor at the tenor of these sentences, with these deftly deployed layers of surprise." --Lynn Steger Strong, The New York Times Book Review "Miller's new collection shows her in many moods and modes, from wistful to comedic to speculative. What a pleasure!" -- Jeffrey Eugenides , author of Fresh Complaint "Slim but powerful . . . Author and filmmaker Miller ( Jacob's Folly, 2013) adeptly encapsulates these women's experiences." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Disarmingly matter-of-fact . . . A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "The seven brilliantly knotty and piercingly intimate stories in Total depict characters undone, temporarily or irreparably, by obsessive love." --Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In Miller's alluring collection (after the novel Jacob's Folly), protagonists search for connection and pleasure in strange, sometimes destructive ways . . . Miller brings a cinematic eye to her descriptions (a parking garage's 'final floor' offers a 'vivid sky') and plenty of drama to the situations. These stories are full of surprises." -- Publishers Weekly, "Miller is cognizant of the complexity that can still breathe inside familiar stories. She helps us reconsider their elasticity, to see from different angles how they pulse with life . . . You've never quite seen them inhabited by these versions of these characters, nor at the tenor of these sentences, with these deftly deployed layers of surprise." --Lynn Steger Strong, The New York Times Book Review "Wit and coolly slaying wisdom are constant delights in these emotionally complex stories . . . Miller's stories read as though they've been written by someone who takes immense pleasure in their creation. Line by line, they're cinematically vivid, and she isn't afraid to make things happen either . . . What does she want us to know? Perhaps simply that reading should always feel electrifyingly weird." -- Hephzibah Anderson, The Guardian "Miller's new collection shows her in many moods and modes, from wistful to comedic to speculative. What a pleasure!" -- Jeffrey Eugenides , author of Fresh Complaint "Slim but powerful . . . Author and filmmaker Miller ( Jacob's Folly, 2013) adeptly encapsulates these women's experiences." -- Booklist (Starred Review) "Disarmingly matter-of-fact . . . A beautifully constructed, acutely felt, morally honest collection." -- Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review) "The seven brilliantly knotty and piercingly intimate stories in Total depict characters undone, temporarily or irreparably, by obsessive love." --Dan Sheehan, Lit Hub "In Miller's alluring collection (after the novel Jacob's Folly), protagonists search for connection and pleasure in strange, sometimes destructive ways . . . Miller brings a cinematic eye to her descriptions (a parking garage's 'final floor' offers a 'vivid sky') and plenty of drama to the situations. These stories are full of surprises." -- Publishers Weekly Number of Pages: 192 Pages Author: Rebecca Miller gtin13: 9780374299118 Language: English Publication Year: 2022 Item Weight: 11.6 Oz Synopsis: Rebecca Miller returns to short fiction for the first time since her prodigious collection of stories, Personal Velocity , with the arresting, darkly prescient Total . From Dublin to Martha's Vineyard, from the anxious comforts of motherhood to a technologically infected near future that mirrors today with dark prescience, each of the seven stories in Total is a world of its own, painted with vivid strokes, whose people and questions stay with the reader long after the story has ended. Joad, one of the first characters we meet, finds onionskin pages crammed in a locked desk drawer while refurbishing a Hudson Valley farmhouse; the terrifying words on the fragile paper haunt Joad and her husband, the woman who wrote them looming over the couple like a malevolent spirit. Her words embody the power of the act of creation and the insidious, untamable force of language once it has left one's pen. The author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly , as well as an award-winning filmmaker, Miller has "the soaring eye of the epicist and the sly instinct of the satirist" ( The New Yorker ), and her talents are on full display in Total . Each voice and life captured in these haunting stories is unforgettable., Rebecca Miller returns to short fiction for the first time since her collection of stories, Personal Velocity , with the arresting, darkly prescient Total . But to get back to my subject. Of the little moment when I went the wrong way, from promising young woman to flotsam, to extraneousness--like the strands that rub off a ribbon and that you cut away. Each of the seven stories in Total is a full world, painted with vivid strokes, one whose people and questions stay with the reader long after the story has ended and the book has been closed. Joad, one of the first characters we meet, finds onionskin pages crammed in a locked desk drawer while refurbishing a Hudson Valley farmhouse with her husband; the terrifying words on the fragile paper haunt Joad and their home, the woman who wrote them looming over them like a malevolent spirit. Innate in her words is the power of the act of creation and the ability of language to link people across time. Rebecca Miller, the author of The Private Lives of Pippa Lee and Jacob's Folly , returns to short fiction for the first time since her beloved collection of stories, Personal Velocity . The author and award-winning filmmaker has "the soaring eye of the epicist and the sly instinct of the satirist" ( The New Yorker ), and her talents are on full display in Total . From Dublin to Martha's Vineyard, from the comforting mundanities of motherhood to a technologically infected near future that mirrors our present with dark prescience, each voice and life captured in this collection is utterly unforgettable. brand: Farrar, Straus & Giroux ISBN-13: 9780374299118 Intended Audience: Trade Topic: Short Stories (Single Author) Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Book Title: Total : Stories Item Height: 1.1 in Format: Hardcover ISBN-10: 0374299110 Item Width: 5.4 in LCCN: 2021-061238 Genre: Fiction Item Length: 8.2 in LC Classification Number: PS3613.I55T68 2022

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  1. Rebecca Miller’s *Total* is a stunning collection of short stories that feel deeply personal yet universally relatable. Her writing is sharp, poetic, and full of emotional depth, capturing the complexities of human relationships with grace. The hardcover edition is beautifully crafted, making it a great addition to any bookshelf. Each story lingers long after reading—thought-provoking and moving. A must-read for fans of literary fiction!

    Jefferson Acantilado

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