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Amazingly weird story, well written, this is my third Karen Russell story and yes, I do like her writing. Weird stories, surrealistic stories, out of this world...This is some weird story too, a ghost story, about two young ladies who call themselves prospectors. They visit rich people's houses and parties and steal their way around, thus keeping alive in difficult times. One day, they hear about a rich lodge being opened on top of the mountain. They head out... the party has already started...
Russell is a wonderful writer, and this story can well attest to that fact... unlike other reviews, i won't give away the tale and its gently applied surprises... suffice it to say this could have been a much longer text, probably a novella, and it would not have suffered, especially with the talents of the author to flesh it out... a fun read with quite enough to leave you wondering...
Wavering between a three and four. But Russell's writing is surprisingly melodic. Was not expecting such lyricism from a typically more pragmatic news-website like The New Yorker. :)
Love this story. Russell's descriptions are beautiful and rich with symbolism!
Two Depression-era gals attend swanky parties and always come home with souvenirs they have "prospected." Now in Oregon, they ride a chair lift to an exclusive mountain top gala:Men mobbed us, handing us fizzing drinks, taking our coats. Deluged by introductions, we started giggling, handing our hands around: “Nilson, Pauley, Villanueva, Obadiah, Acker . . .” Proudly, each identified himself to us as one of the C.C.C. “tree soldiers” who had built this fantasy resort: masons and blacksmiths and
I loved this story. There was something crazy and also utterly associable about it. Like, that scary feeling in your gut you experience remembering the wildest thing you've done as a teenage girl.Also reminded me of Casper.
This was a short story about two young women who, in an effort to make a living amidst the Great Depression, took to attending high society parties where they would "prospect"--steal from the rich. The story centers on an occasion in which the two women found themselves at a party completely populated by the dead. The concept is played mostly for laughs, though in a darker kind of way. Russell also takes the opportunity to make observations on morality and the position and purpose of women in th...
So, I had to read this for my English Lit class, and I’m not familiar with the author and her stories as most of the reviewers are, so I’m giving it a 3, but I kind of want to give it a 2.5. All in all, I can say she has one heck of an imagination, as most writers do. However, I thought this story was kind of all over the place and sort of rushed. Although it was a longer short story (if that makes sense), it felt like she was trying to put so much in one story. It seemed like she was taking hug...
A fairly typical Karen Russell story experience for me: I found it imaginative, lushly described, and at least briefly transportive, but ultimately kind of empty.
Weird ghost story
3.5 starsA quiet haunting tail with beautiful language.
Another fantastic Karen russell short story!
No spoilers but one too many quotes ahead:There are times when Karen Russell’s prose is luminous, flowing gracefully as it drowns you in imagery: “At first, the climb was beautiful. An evergreen army held its position in the whipping winds. Soon, the woods were replaced by fields of white. Icy outcroppings rose like fangs out of a pink-rimmed sky. We rose, too, our voices swallowed by the cables’ groaning. Clara was singing something that I strained to hear, and failed to comprehend.” Then the...
I really enjoyed the descriptions of the settings in the book and the author's style of writing. The tension accelerating as the evening goes on kept me really engaged. I also appreciated the backstory on how the women ended up where they did, I think it made me connect with them so much more. I thought it was a clever ghost story, slightly rushed feeling at the end, but maybe that was me wanting to keep following the prospectors into more odd adventures.
This story is just another great way to spend your time. This piece is beautifully written, well crafted...I can't even begin to tell you how much I love Karen Russell and everything she writes. I won't say anything about the story, because I don't want to give anything away, and it's easy to do that with a short story. But the plot is great, the characters are fantastic, and it's very funny. Just read it. I'm done.
