There's Something I Want you to Do, Stories

Resumen del libro

The book follows a group of Minneapolis citizens, including a pediatrician, a young drug addict, a translator and a car mechanic ' all of whom, like the rest of us, crave love and meaning and moral goodness while confined by the shortcomings and idiosyncrasies of their own ­personalities. These characters slip in and out of one anothers stories, and while some never meet, they eventually constitute, if not exactly a community, a shimmering web of interconnectedness.

Nobody would mistake this book for a novel in stories; there are no throughlines, and the material is too far-ranging. But Baxter clearly has had great sport constructing his inventive linkages. A 'request moment' using the books title is planted either verbatim or slightly askew in each story like a bean in a Christmas cake. Some requests hit with the weight of commandment; at least one is a joke. (New York Times Book Review)

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;b Charles Baxterx{0026}lt;/b (Minneapolis, 1947) es novelista, poeta y ensayista. Ha sido profesor de escritura creativa en la Universidad de Míchigan, en la Universidad de Minnesota y en el Warren Wilson College. Es autor de seis novelas, seis libros de cuentos, tres poemarios y dos recopilaciones de ensayos. Entre sus obras de ficción destacan las novelas x{0026}lt;i Primera luzx{0026}lt;/i (1987); x{0026}lt;i El festín del amorx{0026}lt;/i (2000; Libros del Asteroide, 2022), finalista del National Book Award, ganadora del premio Llibreter 2002 y que fue llevada al cine en 2007; x{0026}lt;i Saul y Patsyx{0026}lt;/i (2003), x{0026}lt;i El ladrón de almasx{0026}lt;/i (2008) y x{0026}lt;i The Sun Collectivex{0026}lt;/i (2020); y los libros de cuentos x{0026}lt;i Believersx{0026}lt;/i (1997) y x{0026}lt;i Therex{0026} x02019;s Something I Want You to Dox{0026}lt;/i (2015). Actualmente vive en Minneapolis.x{0026}lt;/p