The stories found in this collection explore the sensual worlds of thirteen older women, reframing their intellectual and emotional lives in intimate vignettes that will shock and comfort in equal measure. ‘Sensual, spiky, tender and utterly original’ Pandora Sykes ‘I don’t know,’ she replied, ‘I may not have had it yet.’ĪN INDEPENDENT BOO K OF THE MONTH FOR JULY 2022Ī WHAT TO READ PICK 2022 FOR NEW STATESMEN I was told of an older woman who was asked by her granddaughter, ‘Granny, when was the happiest time of your life?’
If (('gtm=off') const isAppRedirect = ('appRedirect') Ĭonst isAndroid = /Android/i.test(erAgent) Ĭonst isIphone = /iPhone|iPad|iPod/i.test(erAgent) “Schutt writes stories that don’t have an ounce of melodrama in them-they feel unusually alive and honest-and few writers capture bereavement with Schutt’s precision and elegance. “Schutt’s haunting yet lyrical words linger long after the final page. 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. 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. 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 11 captivating tales, Pure Hollywood brings us into private worlds of corrupt familial love, intimacy, longing, and danger. 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. “Long and short stories from one of our most distinctive prose stylists, ” the author of the National Book Award finalist, Florida: A Novel (New York, “The Best Books of the Year So Far”).
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