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1995 PEN Center USA Award Winner for Fiction
the tenderness in these stories reminds me a lot of Steinbeck. There are several wonderful stories, but my favorite might be the shortest, "Brilliant Mistake"--I even have thoughts of memorizing it sometime soon. "And still I think I left at the right time, still I think swimming underwater with the drink was a good exit, and the girl, a woman now, must remember our few minutes in the dark of the pool with the same appreciative mystery that I do. It is the one perfect moment in my life."
Powerful. Robert Boswell famously said, "If the nonfiction writer has to live in another’s shoes, the fiction writer has to cobble together the shoes and fill them with some imaginary creature before emptying them and seeing if they’re his size."I feel as if these are the stories that Sam Shepard has been trying to write. Stories dripping with filth; imbued with horrible and touching glimpses into the passion that stimulates the derelict. Ultimately an endearing and meaningful collection. Read i...
Robert Boswell kinda snuck up on me.I came to know of him through a stunner of a lecture he gave at Warren Wilson on complex moments in fiction, in which he proved he could not only tell a story, but perform it as well. I picked up his book of essays on writing, The Half-Known World, and was beyond impressed at the light he shed on various tricky craft elements – The Half-Known World has become one of my go-to reference texts. All of this, combined with the fact that he’s one of the powerhouse p...
I feel that this book was good in many aspects. He did a great job of allowing you to picture many instances throughout the book with great imagery and diction. Also the stories in the book are very well written and easy to read. It didn't really have a single plot do to the fact that it is many stories in one but the stories themselves are very well written and have great plots. The characters in this book were very believable and I feel you are able to relate to them very well in all of the st...
I really enjoyed this book. I liked that the stories weren't super high-concept, and the author uses a lot of really interesting imagery. My two favorite stories were "The Earth's Crown" and "Grief," mostly for their surprisingly emotional endings.
