Sean Taylor (3)
Autor(a) de Your Smallest Bones: Stories
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50 of 75 in 2015. I found this collection of short stories both lyrical and disturbing. Written in a cross between blank verse and stream of consciousness, the stories treat such subjects as homelessness, assisted suicide, breaking up. Often bleak in outlook, the stories remain fascinating, due largely to the author's gift with words. I recommend the collection with this caveat--I did not find the stories uplifting, rather depressing, but well written.
This is a satisfying book of short stories, most of them about relationships of various kinds. Everything is filtered through language that is evocative, though sometimes falls into poetic semi-incomprehensibility. The best of these stories leave images that stick--a piano on a frozen lake, a book written on a mattress, an overfilled plastic bag, a memorable conversation. These are definitely literary short stories, but there is a heart and soul at the center of most of them that shines through and lifts them above the frequent meaninglessness that mars the genre.… (mais)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 16
- Popularidade
- #679,947
- Avaliação
- 2.8
- Resenhas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 251
- Idiomas
- 8
This has been a successful enjoyable venture. Until now. I can't recall a single one of these stories. I came to dread reading them, & was glad to find tonight was the last one.
The thing is, they're not written badly. But there is no depth, no connection to the characters, no memorable plots, or lines, just nothing to make these stand out at all.
So I'm disappointed. And it hurts me to give it just one star. But the truth is I just don't like it, so I have no choice.… (mais)