{"id":68,"date":"2023-07-08T11:00:42","date_gmt":"2023-07-08T11:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/review-after-the-funeral-is-another-showcase-for-tessa-hadleys-virtuosity\/"},"modified":"2023-07-08T11:00:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-08T11:00:42","slug":"review-after-the-funeral-is-another-showcase-for-tessa-hadleys-virtuosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/review-after-the-funeral-is-another-showcase-for-tessa-hadleys-virtuosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Review | \u2018After the Funeral\u2019 is another showcase for Tessa Hadley\u2019s virtuosity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wpds-c-jUMcim wpds-c-jUMcim-ibVGacg-css hide-for-print mb-sm\">\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-ieDMgMI-css flex items-center\" config=\"[object Object]\" data-qa=\"article-actions\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-mfMEg\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-hnjNCH wpds-c-kSOqLF-bywHgD-variant-primary wpds-c-kSOqLF-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-kSOqLF-hZSyid-isOutline-true wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-icon-left wpds-c-kSOqLF-futxca-cv wpds-c-hnjNCH-eNNUQD-cv wpds-c-hnjNCH-jGqLyO-cv\"><button aria-label=\"Comment\" class=\"wpds-c-gPbxFP\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"var(--wpds-colors-primary)\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-kKAfCG wpds-c-efqEZa flex items-center justify-center brad-lg pointer transition-400 ease-in-out transition-colors\" aria-label=\"Comment on this story\"><title>Comment on this story<\/title><path d=\"M14 14V2H2v9.47h8.18L12.43 13ZM3 10.52V3h10v9.23l-2.5-1.66Z\"\/><\/svg><\/button><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wpds-c-fBEbFG\">Comment<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The English short-story virtuoso Tessa Hadley has occasionally been compared to Alice Munro, writers, in the words of novelist Anne Enright, \u201cwho would rather be wise than nice.\u201d Both etch sentences as precise as an Olympic skater\u2019s figure eights; both wield their scalpels for insight beneath the baggy skin of domesticity. No one in their work is pure in thought and deed; no one escapes the consequences of moral hazard. But perhaps there the comparisons should end: Munro sets her gaze on panoramas of history and place, while Hadley lingers closer to hearth and home, her dramas tighter and on a smaller scale.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Her elegant new collection, \u201cAfter the Funeral,\u201d showcases the gifts readers will recognize from her earlier books. (Seven of the 12 stories originally appeared in the New Yorker<i>.<\/i>) The quest for an authentic self is doomed; families are distant, often duplicitous; exhausted marriages must contend with the \u201cinfinite complication of children\u201d \u2014 these themes have always formed the core of Hadley\u2019s fiction. But she sounds a new note here, a dirge for an era buffeted by pandemics and other threats. Is empathy possible? Are we beyond redemption?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Her characters dance around their desires. A divorc\u00e9e bumps into her ex-husband on the London tube and invites him back to her flat, hoping to rekindle their passion, but he\u2019s happily settled. A teenager on holiday with her helicopter parents in Florence rebels against their conformity, \u201cnot a sexual awakening, or not exactly \u2014 rather an intellectual or imaginative one.\u201d Fortysomething Heloise enrolls her child in a Suzuki violin class, only to discover that the mysterious instructor holds the key to her own past.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The stories in \u201cAfter the Funeral\u201d are particularly perceptive about sibling frictions. In \u201cThe Bunty Club,\u201d a trio of stressed sisters hunker down in a coastal town as their elderly mother ebbs in a fatal illness. The women swap off bedside duties and nurse grudges. When they spar over the presence of a handsome gardener, the youngest, Serena, snaps and storms out. She\u2019s emblematic of Hadley\u2019s indomitable women: \u201cShe sat solitary at an outdoor table at a cafe on the main street with a black coffee, long legs crossed, absorbed in lighting her cigarette and smoking it.\u201d She \u201chad an aura that was just as significant as if she were some celebrity, washed up improbably at the seaside, having shaken off her entourage of admirers or detractors, thirsting to be left alone with her luxuriant inward life.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Hadley denies her men that inward life; they\u2019re mostly vain and incompetent. In \u201cMy Mother\u2019s Wedding,\u201d a bumbling groom unwittingly seduces his bride\u2019s adolescent daughters. In \u201cOld Friends,\u201d an engineer carries on a torrid affair with a school chum\u2019s spouse, deluding himself into thinking he has a chance. The affecting \u201cFunny Little Snake\u201d portrays a stepmother tending to a child neglected by her parents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The title story is a marvel of economy, as two girls grapple with the sudden death of their aloof father. Hadley\u2019s descriptions are exquisite; she depicts the sisters bunking together, one \u201csprawled on her back with her pyjama top twisted under her armpits and her dark curls sweaty, breathing noisily, the fine red vee of her lip drawn up, showing the little baby teeth like seed pearls.\u201d Hadley often lops off her tales in mid-stride: The final sentence lands with an abrupt thud, pushing readers into the negative space of unwritten scenes. She\u2019s coaxing us to imagine what happens next, to collaborate. This technique isn\u2019t always successful \u2014 in \u201cMia,\u201d for instance, it makes the story feel merely stunted, a workshop exercise.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">No matter: Hadley saves the best for last. \u201cCoda\u201d is her covid lockdown piece, told in first person by Diane, the middle-aged daughter of nonagenarian Margot, who is physically feeble but mentally sharp. The women spend their isolation with tea and television, bits of books and banter. Their routines come unglued when Diane observes Teresa, a Maltese home-care aide next door, sparking a quasi-romantic obsession. Diane is a conniving, unreliable narrator, scheming up ways to meet Teresa.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cCoda\u201d brims with Hadley\u2019s wry wit and clear-eyed skepticism. Amid the quarantine there\u2019s a hint of hope, though, a glimpse of a world reviving itself. From her window, Diane looks onto a cherry tree in bloom: \u201cIn the spring, when lockdown was new and the weather, in consolation or mockery, was so uncannily beautiful week after week, this tree had blazed with its great burden of blossom, the white flowers\u2019 crimson hearts leaking pink stain into the frail material of the petals, an incongruous poem in a prosaic street.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><i>An incongruous poem in a prosaic street: <\/i>There\u2019s no more succinct summary of Hadley\u2019s fiction. She embraces the vexations of an ordinary afternoon, the disappointments of the here and now. Whether we\u2019re entitled to those disappointments is a separate issue: Hadley withholds judgment, but doesn\u2019t dismiss morality as just another human invention, a blip in millions of years of evolution, one that could vanish in the blink of an eye. Morality \u2014 which is to say, our obligations to one another and our communities \u2014 may be imperfect, even futile, but we make do. \u201cAfter the Funeral\u201d is a revelation for aficionados of the form, as vibrant and knowing as the best of Hadley\u2019s celebrated career.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\"><i>Hamilton Cain is a book critic and the author of \u201cThis Boy\u2019s Faith: Notes from a Southern Baptist Upbringing.\u201d He lives in Brooklyn.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"PJLV PJLV-ibHxfFu-css flex mt-md test overrideStyles\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-dXjReQ\"><button id=\"gift-share-shortcut\" class=\"wpds-c-kSOqLF wpds-c-kSOqLF-SQjOY-variant-secondary wpds-c-kSOqLF-biynoz-density-compact wpds-c-kSOqLF-ejCoEP-icon-left hide-for-print ml-sm\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewbox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"currentColor\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" role=\"img\" class=\"wpds-c-dJBvpf \"><path d=\"M10.73 5h.14a1.75 1.75 0 0 0 1-2.25 1.83 1.83 0 0 0-.51-.75 1.72 1.72 0 0 0-1.48-.35 1.76 1.76 0 0 0-1.2.94L8 3.93l-.68-1.4A1.76 1.76 0 0 0 4 3.59 1.74 1.74 0 0 0 5.13 5H2v4h1v5h10V9h1V5ZM9.58 3a.77.77 0 0 1 .51-.4h.17a.73.73 0 0 1 .47.17.72.72 0 0 1 .27.71.72.72 0 0 1-.48.58l-1.77.66ZM5 3.43a.72.72 0 0 1 .27-.71.73.73 0 0 1 .47-.17h.17a.77.77 0 0 1 .51.4l.83 1.7L5.48 4A.74.74 0 0 1 5 3.43ZM3 6h4.5v2H3Zm1 3h3.5v4H4Zm4.5 4V9H12v4ZM13 8H8.5V6H13Z\" data-name=\"Path 10\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"wpds-c-iSKIAI\">Gift this article<\/span>Gift Article<\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mb-lg mt-lg\">\n<div data-qa=\"disclaimer\" class=\"wpds-c-lgLEQx\">\n<p>A note to our readers<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"disclaimer-description\" class=\"wpds-c-joLgjs\">We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program,<br \/>\n      an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking<br \/>\n      to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<section class=\"dn-ns hide-for-print\" data-testid=\"mostRead\" subscriptions-section=\"content\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/books\/2023\/07\/08\/after-funeral-tessa-hadley-stories-review\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Comment on this storyComment The English short-story virtuoso Tessa Hadley has occasionally been compared to Alice Munro, writers, in the words of novelist Anne Enright, \u201cwho would rather be wise than nice.\u201d Both etch sentences as precise as an Olympic skater\u2019s figure eights; both wield their scalpels for insight beneath the baggy skin of domesticity&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/entertainment\/review-after-the-funeral-is-another-showcase-for-tessa-hadleys-virtuosity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Review | \u2018After the Funeral\u2019 is another showcase for Tessa Hadley\u2019s virtuosity&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-apps\/imrs.php?src=https:\/\/arc-anglerfish-washpost-prod-washpost.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/JMP5URS54BFCZL2MLE2CSLFAPI_size-normalized.jpg&w=1440","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.8 (Yoast SEO v22.1) - 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