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Title: The Ice at the Bottom of the World by Mark Richard ISBN: 0-385-41544-3 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 January, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Ice at the Bottom of the World
Comment: I've never read a short story collection like this one. I've since read it dozens of times and have sought out everything written by Mark Richard. The most frustrating thing about his books is that he doesn't write them fast enough.
Rating: 5
Summary: Macabre, hilarious, desperate, heartwarming
Comment: Macabre, hilarious, desperate, heartwarming, Mark Richard's collection is stunning in its stark juxtaposition of a gamut of emotions and moods. The prose is sparse, and all the more evocative because of it. The world Richard depicts is itself sparse - his characters take their comfort where they can. It is a world of immense cruelty and immensely harsh beauty. There is pain in this washed out, painted over landscape of mudflats, fairgrounds and burning shacks, but also a piercing redemptive vision. As I read I found the first story superlative, then the next, then the next, right to the end. Books may not change your life, but this one may well leave its images searing your imagination for a long time. When I consider the lack of attention Mark Richard has received for his fiction, I'm tempted to believe there's no justice in the world at all, but then I realise that for such a gem of a book to exist at all is a kind of secret miracle. Witness it while you can.
Rating: 4
Summary: Shame on Doubleday
Comment: Mark Richard is simply the best current short story writer (with some competition from Tom Franklin). While no single story in this collection rivals Richard's "masterpiece," the story BIRDS FOR CHRISTMAS collected in CHARITY, each piece is subtle, precise, brilliant.
However, the overall enjoyment of the book is hampered somewhat by the shameful job performed by the publisher (Doubleday). ICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE WORLD feels like it's printed on two-ply paper towels shoved between dry cleaning shirt cardboards which serve as the cover. You worry something must be wrong with the book because the publisher did such a cost cutting - dismissive job in producing it.
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Title: Reasons to Live: Stories by Amy Hempel, Harperperennial ISBN: 0060976721 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.50 |
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Title: The Contortionist's Handbook by Craig Clevenger ISBN: 1931561486 Publisher: MacAdam/Cage Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.50 |
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Title: TUMBLE HOME: A NOVELLA AND SHORT STORIES by Amy Hempel ISBN: 0684838877 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Charity by MARK RICHARD ISBN: 0385425708 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 17 August, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Fishboy: A Ghost's Story by Mark Richard ISBN: 0385425686 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 June, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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