Dangerous Stories for Boys edition by Christopher Bernard Literature Fiction eBooks
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“ …a wonderful set of stories. The language sparkles whether the focus is the boy's collection of sea shells, the blogging of adolescent tiffs and romance or a first walk down unfriendly city streets by a country lad. The fictions have a very fresh, spontaneous tone, and the protagonists, at once lyrical and knowing as they make their tentative steps into new adventures in life, are totally convincing.”—Peter Bush, award-winning translator of The Gray Notebook, by Josep Pla
“Dangerous Stories for Boys” are about those years between childhood and the late teens when young males first confront life’s crises and complications – some comic, some tragic – in school, in their families, in the world around them. Three friends find their friendship tested and destroyed by power games and jealousy. A middle-schooler spies on a group of girls to learn what they really talk about when they’re alone, and learns more than he bargained for. A country boy gets lost on his first day in the big city and grows up faster than he ever expected. A preteen learns about the limits of safety and protection when he goes hunting for a tortoise shell to add to his collection. A young man reacts with murderous violence to a romantic breakup. A fourteen-year-old writes a blog about his experiences in a time of war and economic collapse. A pre-teen is overwhelmed by a sense of betrayal when his mother throws out a favorite toy from his childhood. A young Californian becomes obsessed by a veiled Muslim woman, leading to an interest in Islam that takes him to the threshold of conversion.. Franz Kafka’s father, from beyond the grave, responds to Kafka’s famous letter, in a tragic-comic epistle expressing what the father really thought of his son.
"Dangerous Stories for Boys" are stories for our time touching, funny, sharp, illuminating. What's it like to be a boy in an era of confusing change? This book will help you find out.
Dangerous Stories for Boys edition by Christopher Bernard Literature Fiction eBooks
Christopher Bernard is a novelist who writes with a poet's eye. As in the case of the immortal Pushkin when he ventured into writing his novel, "Eugene Onegin," one finds in such writing a cross-over narrative style, which captures the best of both genres. As Bernard is also a gifted poet based upon two poetic works of his that I have also read, it was a delight to find in the narrative of "Dangerous Stories for Boys" a lyrical style and poetic sensibility which makes this novel come alive. The poetry adds another dimension and creates a 3D effect to enable the story line to lift off the page in his novel. There is something remarkable in the way the characters live and breathe so lyrically in such vibrant settings and when they move, you are there on the beach immersed as an eye witness to the dangers which boys face in their coming of age. It's a miracle we ever survived our surreal feats as young men but Bernard writes truthfully and insightfully and faithfully in remembrance of the mystic nature of youth for both genders, each unto the other. My respect and admiration harks back to an earlier reading of his first novel, "A Spy in the Ruins," which I also highly recommend and it put him on the radar for me as a writer of daunting talents and rare promise. I recommend that you tune into the writing of Christopher Bernard: he is an American literary figure destined and, indeed, poised to rise to prominence for his literary novels and poetic works.Product details
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Dangerous Stories for Boys edition by Christopher Bernard Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
There is something for everyone in these stories by Christopher Bernard about a series of young boys' experiences when growing up a friend is hypnotised and jumps off a cliff, another is belted on bare buttocks by a brute of a father, a mother shoves a bar of soap in a young innocent's mouth (both of these incidents of domestic abuse left me squirming), the lies parents tell their children, problems with zits, the guilt felt by boys when their parents separate, problems of getting it on with girls, a ten-year old's sense of loss when his soft toy is trashed by his mother, the fear when an old man sexually accosts a 12-year-old, a teenager's obsession with a woman in a niqab. More satisfying, I think, is to read each of these stories on different days as it can be disorienting switching from one boy's family to another with a different set of siblings and different family relationships. Then you are in for a satisfying read.
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Christopher Bernard’s “Dangerous Stories for Boys” put me through my paces emotionally. There were several times when the stories elicited a reaction from me when it made me recall experiences from my own childhood.
Most of the stories in this collection share the themes of growing up and a loss of innocence either in the character’s own mind or as a result of the actions of others. They don’t shy away from the awkward, terrifying or embarrassing moments of childhood that help define us and that we never truly forget.
One of the things I liked best were the many moments of adolescent reasoning going on that struck me as very believable and a rational way for a growing boy to think.
As I read through the collection, I found I liked most of the stories and enjoyed the style of prose (there are two flash or micro fiction stories that I wasn’t too fond of, but I, in general, am not a fan of stories that short), but there wasn’t one that really spoke to me until I got to the penultimate tale, “Prisoner of Darkness.” It was awkwardly charming to start and it turned into something of a mystery story, and finally ends as a spiritual awakening. Probably the longest story in this collection, it detailed the journey of its narrator and I was brought along. For me, it was the standout in a book of many very good stories.
If you like short fiction, you will no doubt find something to like in "Dangerous Stories for Boys."
It had been a while since I read a collection of literary short stories that I could enjoy – Christopher Bernard’s Dangerous Stories for Boys gave me that experience this past week. Bernard has a talent for description – whether the story is set in a game by the water or in an alleyway, Bernard paints the image, taking us there. Bernard also gives us relatable, believable characters in very real places, and this sense of realism is present throughout the dialogue. I had the sense, as I read, that I could hear these people, young and old, talking.
A sense of reality can be felt in Bernard’s third-person voice, as well as his first-person tales. I would even say there is a harsh sense of honesty that comes from many of these characters. In fact, Bernard shows off a particular talent for writing engaging dialogue that captures his characters’ voices in “A Time for Charades.”
These stories carry themes of trust, identity, and growing in maturity, among many others. Some of the titles includes are shorter while other entries are lengthier, but all seem to occupy the space they need to accomplish what they intend. They feel current, as when Bernard situates one of his stories (“Lying to Dad A Blog”) as a series of online posts and must navigate the waters of technology, with all its benefits and curses. This story, with its unique styling, was probably my favorite from the collection.
The characters that populate this book draw on the life around them, the worries and the fears, all of the uncertainty that comes with adolescence, and they draw on popular culture and even occasional political commentary. These boys play host to the same fascinations and feelings of awkwardness that often characterize adolescence as young people try to make sense of the world. Bernard sums this up in the words of one of his characters in the story, “The Back of Geryon.” The character says, “I was alone in this new, perilous world. A world that, I sensed, was more treacherous than a wilderness and darker than the night.”
As I read, I was reminded of the stories of Michael Chabon, Edmund Wilson, and Peter Cameron – exactly the kind feeling I would want to gather from a collection of literary stories. I would recommend this book for anyone searching for an enjoyable read along this avenue, as well as anyone who wants to read something that could be happening next door. Bernard knows how to take us into the mind and heart of a character, and does so with skill in each of these collected titles.
Christopher Bernard is a novelist who writes with a poet's eye. As in the case of the immortal Pushkin when he ventured into writing his novel, "Eugene Onegin," one finds in such writing a cross-over narrative style, which captures the best of both genres. As Bernard is also a gifted poet based upon two poetic works of his that I have also read, it was a delight to find in the narrative of "Dangerous Stories for Boys" a lyrical style and poetic sensibility which makes this novel come alive. The poetry adds another dimension and creates a 3D effect to enable the story line to lift off the page in his novel. There is something remarkable in the way the characters live and breathe so lyrically in such vibrant settings and when they move, you are there on the beach immersed as an eye witness to the dangers which boys face in their coming of age. It's a miracle we ever survived our surreal feats as young men but Bernard writes truthfully and insightfully and faithfully in remembrance of the mystic nature of youth for both genders, each unto the other. My respect and admiration harks back to an earlier reading of his first novel, "A Spy in the Ruins," which I also highly recommend and it put him on the radar for me as a writer of daunting talents and rare promise. I recommend that you tune into the writing of Christopher Bernard he is an American literary figure destined and, indeed, poised to rise to prominence for his literary novels and poetic works.
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