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Title: House Fires (The Iowa Short Fiction Award) by Nancy Reisman ISBN: 0-87745-692-5 Publisher: University of Iowa Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful Stories
Comment: This is a great collection of stories by Nancy Resiman. I first heard of her in the Best American Short Stories where she had a story published. I really liked it, so I decided to check out more of her works. All of the stories are beautifully written, if a little depressing. I especially liked the series of Jessie stories that she included. This book won the Iowa Short Fiction Award in 1999, which is really prestigious (though I didn't know it before.. I mean, c'mon.. IOWA?? What are you going to write about?! Cows? But yeah, it's a really great award!).

Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful, heartbreaking, and funny too
Comment: Nancy Reisman's stories are carefully considered, painstakingly crafted works, beautiful at times in the way collages are beautiful, montaged and layered and suggestive. They are ghostly sometimes, and elusive, changing depending on how the light hits them. And sometimes they are funny -- the dinner scene where the young woman is announcing that she's gay and the whole thing gets misheard by the deaf grandparent -- hysterical! And with dialogue that's so right on, so real. Nancy Reisman takes her time with her characters, she's patient with her language and with building her worlds, and I hope readers take the time to invest in these quiet, modest gems. They're so worth it.

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