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Conjunctions: 39, The New Wave Fabulists
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I generally like creative fiction and the collection included some of my favorite authors but the stories here disappointed me. No consistent reason, except perhaps that many failed to address anything. An exception is Jonathan Carroll's tale which was very moving.... »
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The Empire of Ice Cream
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Despite its award winning status, the title of this anthology led me to believe it was either young adult oriented or in the vein of the recent plethora of updated fairy tale collections. I was very pleased to find I was wrong.
Jeffrey Ford is a highly intelligent, clever wordsmith that more closely resembles Bradbury and Wolfe than the Da... »
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The Land of Laughs: A Novel
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Thomas Abbey is a man stuck in a rut. An English teacher in a small Connecticut prep school, Abbey is in a crisis. His career is unfulfilling, he has no social or love life to speak of, and he cannot break out of the shadow of his famous father, the actor Stephen Abbey. To kick-start his life, he takes a sabbatical to work on a biography of his favorit... »
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Black Cocktail
I have to agree with the other reviewer who said this felt unedited. There's too much going on in this story for the 60 or so pages. Many of the familiar ... »
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The Marriage of Sticks
Jonathan Carroll is a writer other writers envy. He's been described as a "cult favorite" whose works go out of print too quickly in the USA, despite his... »
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