Twilight of the Superheroes edition by Deborah Eisenberg Literature Fiction eBooks
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Deborah Eisenberg is almost unmatched in her mastery of the short story form. In this, her seventh collection, she demonstrates her virtuosic abilities in precisely distilled, unflinchingly honest studies of human connection and disconnection. From a group of friends whose luxurious Manhattan sublet becomes a front-row seat to the catastrophe of 9/11; to the Roman holiday of a schoolteacher running away from the news of her ex-husband's life-threatening illness; to the too painful love of a brother for his schizophrenic sister, Eisenberg evokes painful and tender truths, both poetic and deeply political.
'The stories are, in their masterly crosshatching of light and dark, concentrated bursts of perfection’ The Times
‘Wonderful . . . written with a ruthless, compassionate eye and a subtle humour' Guardian
‘Further confirms her reputation as one of the most imaginative and exquisitely perceptive of today’s short story writers' Scotland on Sunday
'She makes you smile as much as she haunts with stark truths . . . In the US, many people consider Eisenberg to be up there with Alice Munro, the female monarch of the short-story form. It’s time the UK considered putting her up there too’ Financial Times
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Twilight of the Superheroes edition by Deborah Eisenberg Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This book was not easy to read. In fact I only read the first 36 pages trying to follow the story. It was like reading random thoughts of mumbo jumbo. The cover was cute and the author sounded interesting. I just didn't get it....
I was conned into buying the book, Twilight of the Superheroes by Deborah Eisenberg (2006), after reading the "chim" review by Washington Post's Lisa Zeidner, which was reproduced on .
In Singapore, we have a Hokkien word "chim" (deep) to describe things that are intellectually pretentious and seemingly profound but which says nothing in the end. Chim is how you would describe both the book and Zeidner's review.
Nowadays, literary short story writers are unable to tell a good yarn in the tradition of Chekov and Conrad. Only trashy fiction like Harry Potter and Lord of the Rings have page-turning plots.
I have to read many of the same passages 2-3 times in Superheroes before I could figure out what this Eisenberg was talking about.
The only saving grace in the book were some random insightful remarks scattered across the pages. The trouble is, these remarks are isolated and seem unrelated to the narrative.
The bottomline is don't read reviews by salaried reviewers -- they are paid to craft expressions that appear elegant and chim, in order to justify their fat salaries. Life is short, cash is scarce, and good fiction and good yarn are already plentiful (e.g. Joyce, Chekov, Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, Melville, RL Stevenson, etc & etc), so, do yourself a favour save your money and save yourself from frustration by ignoring this book.
One of the reviews here, on "ennui", summs up what Superheroes is all about.
Hsiaoshuang
I really disliked this collection and view it as an example of what it wrong with American letters. There was nothing in here but shallow structures signifying how this author clearly values forms -- or sentences -- over storytelling. Moreover, there was smugness instead of something softer, like sentimentality, in many places.
Throughout the collection, there were hardly any characters that I cared about. Not only that, there were hardly any characters that I could even identify as anything other than sketches -- loose shapes on a page with names like Eli or Otto or Oliver. Yes, the names of these forms experienced things, or said things, but I could barely recall their statements from one page to the next. And, after a time, I didn't care to.
By the time the final pages for these stories came, I thought the author accomplished which she set out to do demonstrate her cleverness to the New York Times Book Review and the committee for the National Book Award. What she failed to do is show a reader how one can live, or why they should, through her words.
I may just have to give up on reading short stories. Every so often, I am seduced anew by the breathless, hagiographic blurbs on the cover of the latest hip author's contribution to the genre, to the point where I actually allow myself to believe that the book in question really will be "exhaustingly fascinating", "spirited and masterly", the next {Jim Shepard, Alice Munro, Chekhov, Lorrie Moore, John Cheever.....}. Hope springs eternal.
Yet somehow, things never quite turn out as promised. Usually, there will be no more than two or three good stories, nestled in the padding of half a dozen or so truly mediocre efforts. In vain I search for that promised window into the American soul, only to come away empty-handed yet again.
Well, that may not be totally fair; typically, each new collection offers further corroboration that
1. America's short-story writers continue to be unduly preoccupied with depression
2. Self-absorbed, whiny characters suffering from ennui are not particularly interesting; if allowed to dominate a story, they will eventually alienate the reader
A skilled author should be able to convince the reader to care about the fate of even the most obnoxious characters. Deborah Eisenberg doesn't really succeed in doing so; as a result, her stories don't pack that much of an emotional punch. Based on this collection, she falls squarely in the middle of the pack. There are just six stories in the book - only one ("Like it or not") was outstanding. Two of the remaining stories were reasonably enjoyable, and one was innocuous, albeit completely banal. The remaining two were just unpleasant, containing the stock set of self-absorbed solipsists and dysfunctional family members, nursing their grudges and sniping at one another throughout. The extravagant praise lavished on this book seems completely unwarranted to me. With only one exceptional story out of six, it is hard to consider it as anything other than forgettable.
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