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One of Elle's "Must-Read Titles for Your Book Club." Chosen by The Millions and Flavorwire as one of the most-anticipated books of 2016.
The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,” and these 40 new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny.
Not a single moment here is what you might expect. While there is immense pleasure to be found in Williams’s spot-on observations about how we behave in our highest and lowest moments, the heart of the drama beats in the language of American short fiction’s grand master, whose originality, precision, and power bring the familiar into startling and enchanted relief.
The very short stories of Diane Williams have been aptly called folk tales that hammer like a nail gun,” and these 40 new ones are sharper than ever. They are unsettling, yes, frequently revelatory, and more often than not downright funny.
Not a single moment here is what you might expect. While there is immense pleasure to be found in Williams’s spot-on observations about how we behave in our highest and lowest moments, the heart of the drama beats in the language of American short fiction’s grand master, whose originality, precision, and power bring the familiar into startling and enchanted relief.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This collection of flash fictions is like conceptual art in language, using the grammar, idioms, stereotypes, etc. we all know, but in unlikely and at times surreal combinations. If you read it for sense, you'll be frustrated; if you read it for pleasure and what it shows about our field of references in language and culture, you may well enjoy it as much as I did.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5If you don't appreciate the avant garde, you'll hate this book. Seriously, it will read like she picked some sentences from other books at random and put them together.
Most of these stories are only 2-3 pages, which makes them great for a quick brain reset when you've been tunnel-visioned on a bigger project for too long, or when you need a break from something emotionally draining. - Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5No, no, no, no, no ...
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5With Lydia Davis being one of the authors providing blurbs on the back cover, I really expected to enjoy this collection of short - or flash - fiction ranging from a paragraph to several pages. I am also unfamiliar with Diane Williams previous work, so this was my introduction to her writing. Unfortunately, what I within was a bunch of disjointed pieces that felt like daily notebook jottings polished into a failed poetry/prose hybrid with very little being conveyed beyond a inventive (and even then, not so much) use of language. There isn't nearly enough poetic tone or imagery within the prose, and the pieces rarely - with a few minor exceptions - manage to evoke any real emotion or thought. There is very little discovery, just a lot of muddled observations with a slight surreal tilt. It's one of those collections that makes you wonder, if this wasn't by an already established author/literary figure, does it even get published? An interesting - and some may even say courageous - attempt, but ultimately a swing and a miss.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5I wanted to love this book as much as I love its cover art. Unfortunately, things just didn't work out between us. The flash in the pan fictions didn't offer anything that pulled me in and the repetitive vagueness ended up being grating rather than enticing.
I've flip flopped between a one and two star rating. All in all it isn't a book I see myself recommending but there was one inclusion that was more enjoyable than the rest for me; I felt William's wit shine through a bit in "The Romantic Life."