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Pure Hollywood
Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories | Christine Schutt
12 posts | 6 read | 8 to read
With terse sentences that read like poetry, Schutt strips each scene of excess context and cuts to the heart of the moment....Schutt's haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page.Los Angeles Times Hailed by George Saunders as a truly gifted writer, with Pure Hollywood & Other Stories, Pulitzer Prize finalist and O Henry Prize winner Christine Schutt returns to the short story form that launched her acclaimed career and her inimitable style that John Ashbery once described as pared down but rich, dense, fevered, exactly right and even eerily beautiful. In 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. From an alcoholic widowed actress living in desert seclusion, to a young mother whose rejection of her child has terrible consequences, a newlywed couple who ignore the violent warnings of a painter burned by love, to an eerie portrait of erotic obsession, each story in Pure Hollywood is an imagistic snapshot of what it means to live and learn love and hurt. In league with JD Salinger, Katherine Mansfield and Guy De Maupassant, in Pure Hollywood Schutt gives us sharply suspenseful and masterfully dark interior portraits of ordinary lives, infused with her signature observation and surprise. Timeless, incisive, and precise, these tales are a rush of blood to the head, portals through which we open our eyes and see the world anew.
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Kelly_the_Bookish_Sidekick
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On Wednesday's we wear pink...
and talk about the #pink books on our TBR for #CuriousCovers

That cover! The font! 🤩

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks So pretty 💗💗💗 4y
Eggs Lovely 💗🌸💗 4y
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mreads
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Mehso-so

Meh, I suppose the writing is good in this short story collection but I just can't connect or find any intrest in these rather boring stories or rich people.

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catiewithac
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Pickpick

It‘s clear the author is a talented writer worthy of all the praise on the book jacket. This slim volume delivers a lot of character in an efficient manner. The stories are smart, but I wouldn‘t say they have heart. There‘s a clinical distance between the characters‘ suffering and the reader. 🌵

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Lola
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From one of my favorite small presses, And Other Stories. #HeatofJuly #CaliforniaGurls @Cinfhen @BarbaraBB

BarbaraBB Great name for a publisher. Is the book good? 6y
Lola @BarbaraBB Time will tell...#TBR 😉 6y
Cinfhen It‘s a fabulous cover!! Curious to hear your thoughts💗 6y
bobregina What an amazing cover 😍 6y
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overtheedge

Vocabulary Lesson....new word, for me
"homiletic":the art of preaching (esp. In the application of rhetoric in the art of public preaching.
Colloquially :a preacher?

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overtheedge
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Pickpick

Very glad I finished this collection of short stories. Suddenly, I got it the style and the intent, and I think this is as brilliant as it is disturbing.
Every story draws you into the dark lives of everyday people who have been searching for meaning in a world long gone blank.
Eye opening and Recommended.

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overtheedge
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This Novela of short stories has not excited or amused me. Has anyone read this? Is it me, or do these stories have no real plot.....I'm lost.....

DrexEdit Hello! Thanks for the follow! I'm not familiar with this book, but it sounds like a bail! Are you a person who can stop reading a book or do you have to finish? I'm more of the latter but as I get older I'm getting better at the former! 😊 😊 7y
overtheedge Hi...I can stop reading, sometimes....I'm glad I stuck with this one tho. Once I connected with her style, I thought it was brilliant. But I have bailed on books.... 7y
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Lola
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Book mail is happy mail. And this cover coordinates very nicely with my pastel foil wrapped Hershey kisses 😚 I think I‘ll save this for the upcoming #DeweysReadathon. It‘s a collection of short stories and the perfect size for a #readathon. #bookmail

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DarcysMom
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Panpan

🌟🌟
#Netgalley

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DarcysMom
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NikkiDolson
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So excited to start this one!

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TheBookStacker
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Zooming through all the shorter Galleys I have. Excited for this one of short stories!

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