Funny Once: Stories, by Antonya Nelson
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Michael Chabon once said, "I scan the tables of contents of magazines, looking for Antonya Nelson's name, hoping that she has decided to bless us again." And now she has blessed us again, with a bounty of the stories for which she is so beloved. Her stories are clear-eyed, hard-edged, beautifully formed. In the title story, "Funny Once," a couple held together by bad behavior fall into a lie with their more responsible friends. In "The Village," a woman visits her father at a nursing home, recalling his equanimity at her teenage misdeeds and gaining a new understanding of his own past indiscretions. In another, when a troubled girl in the neighborhood goes missing, a mother worries increasingly about her teenage son’s relationship with a bad-news girlfriend. In the novella "Three Wishes," siblings muddle through in the aftermath of their elder brother’s too-early departure from the world.
The landscape of this book is the wide open spaces of Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado. Throughout, there is the pervasive desire to drink to forget, to have sex with the wrong people, to hit the road and figure out later where to stop for the night. These characters are aging, regretting actions both taken and not, inhabiting their extended adolescences as best they can. And in Funny Once, their flawed humanity is made beautiful, perfectly observed by one of America’s best short story writers.
Funny Once: Stories, by Antonya Nelson- Amazon Sales Rank: #148674 in Books
- Brand: Nelson, Antonya
- Published on: 2015-06-02
- Released on: 2015-06-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.23" h x .86" w x 5.57" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 304 pages
From Booklist *Starred Review* Nelson’s run as one of the finest contemporary short story writers takes an exhilarating leap forward with her outrageously superb seventh collection. Her particular wizardry in the short form (Nelson is also the author of four novels) is found in her exceptional melding of pristine prose with a rampaging imagination and a comic’s perfect timing. Nelson is scandalously funny, her characters are royally screwed up and wildly inept, and their dire predicaments bust down the doors on the most painful of life’s cruel jokes, from betrayal to divorce, addiction, and old age. Nelson excels at multigenerational chaos, portraying with equal verve surprising children and ornery adults as well as neurotic dogs and places rife with hidden angst, namely Wichita, Telluride, and Houston. She traces the odd geometry of divorce that leads to one woman living with and caring for her ex-husband’s stepmother. Forced to bring their enraged, dementia-addled father, lashed with duct tape to his recliner, to a nursing home, the dysfunctional motherless siblings in “Three Wishes” continue to grieve over their older brother’s death long ago. Each of Nelson’s magnetizing stories generates atomic vibrancy and achieves the psychic mass of a novel. And who can resist lines like this—“Life is a series of lessons you don’t want to learn”? --Donna Seaman
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“Antonya Nelson's gloriously debauched new collection, Funny Once, finds that conventions are made for flouting, from an eminent professor who sleeps with his young wife's best friend to former college competitors who embark on a lost weekend.” ―Vogue
“[Nelson shows] great talent in constructing each story in its own unique world . . . [She] makes sure that we see the silliness alongside the strife, and the heart within the hardships.” ―Time Out New York, four stars
“Nelson's stories are busy, noisy, crowded affairs that jump straight into the center of the conflict . . . Nelson treats [her characters'] weaknesses with high-spirited humor and ample forgiveness. ‘If you took all the lessons of others, you might never do anything,' thinks an indulgent grandmother in ‘First Husband.' And if people stopped screwing up, we wouldn't have any more of Ms. Nelson's excellent stories to read.” ―Wall Street Journal
“In her rewarding new collection, Funny Once, Antonya Nelson expertly dissects the lives of her troubled Midwestern and mountain-time characters--frantic teens, finicky fathers, abandoned wives, know-it-all neighbors, sorrowful siblings, festering friendships--dosing their domestic dramas and existential hurts with splendid shots of unexpected whimsy, familiar pleasures, and incurable love.” ―Elle
“Nelson's run as one of the finest contemporary short story writers takes an exhilarating leap forward with her outrageously superb seventh collection. Her particular wizardry in the short form (Nelson is also the author of four novels) is found in her exceptional melding of pristine prose with a rampaging imagination and a comic's perfect timing. Nelson is scandalously funny, her characters are royally screwed up and wildly inept, and their dire predicaments bust down the doors on the most painful of life's cruel jokes, from betrayal to divorce, addiction, and old age. Nelson excels at multigenerational chaos, portraying with equal verve surprising children and ornery adults as well as neurotic dogs and places rife with hidden angst, namely Wichita, Telluride, and Houston . . . Each of Nelson's magnetizing stories generates atomic vibrancy and achieves the psychic mass of a novel.” ―Booklist, starred review
“Graced with credible characters whose friendships, marriages, progeny, and divorces feel familiar and lived in, Nelson's supple stories have appeared in prestigious magazines and prize anthologies for two decades. This seventh short story collection (her tenth book of fiction) will delight longtime fans while likely propelling new readers to explore her earlier work. . . . The narratives are driven by characters whose crises and moments of insight take the reader by surprise, but Nelson herself is completely in control of her complex tales, in which infidelities are exposed or never quite happen and old friends surprise one another with new revelations that take 20 pages to unfold. . . . Nelson is one of the leading practitioners of the contemporary short story.” ―Library Journal, starred review
About the Author Antonya Nelson is the author of nine books of fiction, including the collections Female Trouble and Nothing Right, and the novels Talking in Bed, Nobody's Girl, and Bound. Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Esquire, Harper's, and many other magazines. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an NEA grant, and, recently, the Rea Award for Short Fiction. Nelson lives in New Mexico, Colorado, and Texas, where she holds the Cullen Chair in Creative Writing at the University of Houston.
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful. 9 Good Stories and a FABULOUS Novella By Mary Lins “Funny Once”, by Antonya Nelson, is nine good short stories and a FABULOUS novella. I would give this book 10 stars if I could, because of that last novella called “Three Wishes”. But I’ll get to that in a minute (it’s the last story of the book).I was so happy to start reading Antonya Nelson’s new short story collection to find the first story set in Houston! I’ve long been a fan of Nelson’s work and believe she is a premier short story writer, so I’ve long hoped that she would use our shared “home” as a setting for more of her stories, and she has. Her descriptions of Houston aren’t always positive – but they’re true!The first offering, “Literally” is a poignant snapshot of a family in recovery and a father trying to keep it together. The second story “Soldier’s Joy” asks what might happen if you actually MARRIED that handsome older Professor you fantasized about in college?“iff” provides beautifully rendered denizens of an old and shabby Albuquerque neighborhood as they contemplate a teen-aged runaway. In “First Husband”, as in several of these stories, families are often comprised of an “Ex. Former. Step” – Nelson has a pitch-perfect grasp on the modern family dynamics of blended families and how once you’ve blended something, you can’t really “un-blend” it.In “Winter in Yalta”, two middle-aged women, Cara and Rochelle, best friends since college, are sharing a weekend toot in NYC and find that they are still connected yet divided by the memory of a man they both once loved.One of my favorites in the short collection was “The There There” which starts with a mother and her two sons discussing the best way to get away with murder. In just a few pages, Nelson tells us the story of this mother and these sons over the years and depicts how often sons grow away from their mothers when they marry. “Chapter Two” begins with a naked lady at the door and seems to be a comedy – until it’s not.Many of the stories deal with substance abuse and/or have both functional and dysfunctional alcoholics as characters. I thought Nelson’s treatment of these characters was unique and highly realistic.Now to the novella, “Three Wishes”, just a shade over 100 pages. I knew I was going to love it from the first page as three siblings carry their father off to a nursing home duct-taped to his Lay-z-boy in the bed of their pickup truck!The highest praise I can give a writer, is to compare him or her to Anne Tyler. Nelson’s “Three Wishes” is populated with Tyler-esque characters and situations, like sad sack, Hugh, and flighty, Stacy, with her seizure-prone dog. I fell in love with Hugh’s quirky sisters and his sensitive nephew. I wanted to meet these people. I wanted to have a drink with them in their regular bar, Ugly’s. I just gobbled up this story as if I was starving – and yet tried to make it last like a favorite meal. This story is worth the price of the book. This story is the one I’ll read over and over again.Bonus: Nelson uses the word “grody” which I haven’t seen in print, ever, yet have used all my life!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. I loved the realism and cynicism-- perhaps the negative reviewers should ... By Neurotic Parent Dark and compelling stories about various types of complex human relationships. I loved the realism and cynicism-- perhaps the negative reviewers should stick to novels with shiny happy people as protagonists whom they can easily root for. There are no heroes here and no neatly wrapped happy endings. Nelson's biggest draw is her ability to beautifully illustrate how we can both love and hate a friend with equal rigor, become absolutely numb to our loneliness, or ambivalent in our personal affairs. 5 stars
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. great collection By ellen foster This is a great collection of short stories. Each is very different from the others. This author treats the readers as if they are discerning readers without the bizarre endings some short stories have.
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