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Title: Elbow Room by James Alan McPherson ISBN: 0-449-21357-9 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 October, 1986 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Snapshots
Comment: Purposeful or not, the stories get progressively better as you move through the collection. But that does not mean that they do not start off well.
The three stories that made the biggest impact on me, however, are the last three. In particular, Enough for the City, a rumination on life and love, is enchanting and complex, and it is quite unbelievable that McPherson was able to achieve those qualities in so few pages. Perhaps the most manipulative of McPherson's stories, it is nonetheless clever and contemplative.
Take time to sit with this collection of short stories. I am quite certain that there are many aspects of the book that I missed, but will hope to gain a better understanding of the lives described as I think more about it.
Not only are the stories important tales to be told, they are also incredibly pleasant to read- with some very witty lines- such as the Southern African-American child's mother who suggested that if you work hard at being a good and upstanding individual, it meant that when you died, you would finally make it to......New York.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good stuff!
Comment: Collected here are a dozen stories which deal with people's lives, families, interactions, relationships, and experiences as a part of African American society. The result is an engrossing group of stories that move quickly and enjoyably. My only qualm is that perhaps I didn't feel it deserved the Pulitzer, but only mildly. It's good reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: MacPherson a Master of the Form
Comment: In his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection, the author plays on our tendency to see people and events from inside our own little boxes. His characters are snared by assumptions, misled by appearances as they try to "read" experience and find and/or make places for themselves. The prose is gorgeous, full of sensory details and wit.
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Title: Hue and Cry : Stories by James Alan McPherson ISBN: 0060936479 Publisher: Ecco Pub. Date: 01 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever ISBN: 0375724427 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 16 May, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ISBN: 0375701176 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer ISBN: 0375700811 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Humboldt's Gift (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics) by Saul Bellow ISBN: 0140189440 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: June, 1996 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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