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Title: How It Was for Me : Stories by Andrew Sean Greer ISBN: 0-312-24126-7 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 07 April, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.43 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Extraordinary
Comment: These stories are some of the finest I've read in years. I bought the book because I remembered a story Greer had published in Esquire a few years ago about twin boys that was brilliant. I was happy to see that that story is just one of a whole collection of phenomenal stories. Greer's ability to mine the complexities of human interaction and the lonliness and longing of childhood is masterful. I had the strong premonition reading these stories that Greer will go on to be an important writer; one who will have an impact on literature in the way that James or, more currently, Michael Cunningham or Howard Norman, has. Not only does he have an uncanny ability to translate very specific worlds, whether that be the middle-aged, opera-going upperclasses of the South, or the adolescent backyards of suburban Washington, but his concerns with the barriers of class, age, gender and sexuality all elevate these stories out of the category of merely good or accomplished, they are brilliant. There is a story at the end of the collection titled "Come Live With Me and Be My Love" that is simply one of the best stories I have ever read. I cannot recommend this book more strongly.
Rating: 4
Summary: Beautifully written debut stories!!!
Comment: I really enjoyed these 11 stories. Most of these stories are about childhood, growing up, and becoming mature adults. A lot of these stories will make you look back on your own life growing up as a child and all the experiences that that can entail. The author's sentences are thoughtfully written and in a very stylistic way. I was unhappy to see the book end, especially after reading the very emotional last story "Come Live with Me and Be My Love", about a middle-age man looking back on his 30 year arranged marriage. This was a truly touching story.
I recommend this very human collection of stories. A great debut collection from Mr. Greer. I just hope there is more to come soon. He has a great elegant and poetic style of writing.
Rating: 5
Summary: Magic
Comment: Really fine fiction is like music in that its delivery is a delight, and its crescendo is both expected and startling. Really fine fiction is magical in its ability to recount a history and yet transcend the very notion of permanence and event. Andrew Sean Greer's stories are startling and beautiful, musical and magical. I cannot recommend them highly enough.
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Title: The Path of Minor Planets: A Novel by Andrew Sean Greer ISBN: 0312306059 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer ISBN: 0374128715 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 01 February, 2004 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Little Children : A Novel by Tom Perrotta ISBN: 0312315716 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 March, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Equal Love by Peter Ho Davies ISBN: 0618006990 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: You Remind Me of Me by DAN CHAON ISBN: 0345441419 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 25 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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