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Title: A Girl With a Monkey: New and Selected Stories by Leonard Michaels ISBN: 1-56279-120-6 Publisher: Mercury House Pub. Date: April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Refreshing Change
Comment: What's amazing about Michaels is how seamlessly he transitioned from an experimental realist to a master of the realistic short story form. His early stories are marked by a linguistic self-apparency, though he's funny enough to keep it interesting. And, unlike others in this vein, his style is blatantly influenced by Kafka and Beckett. Sometimes the description in the early stories can be too thick, exhausting the possibilites of each situation. The language in the best of them, however - "In The Fifties," "Manikin" (The one about the Turk, I think) - have a wonderful interplay of signifiers, like poetry. "In The Fifties" is an ironized (sp.) list poem in the style of Ginsberg's "Howl".
The later stories acheive such a transparency you can forget how funny they are. Michaels is a master of form. They are narrated in a natural, subdued manner, unlike the glossy, journalistic style we get from some of our other first tier writers. The differentiated narrative strands merge together gradually as the story progresses.
Thematically, Michaels' stories are interesting because they are often set on the cusp of the sexual revolution, and there is much confusion about gender roles in relationships. All in all, one of the best books I've read in awhile.
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Title: Time Out of Mind: The Diaries of Leonard Michaels 1961-1995 by Leonard Michaels ISBN: 1573228192 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 10 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: I Would Have Saved Them If I Could by Leonard Michaels ISBN: 0374174113 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: October, 1982 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: The End of the Story by Lydia Davis ISBN: 1852424206 Publisher: Serpent's Tail Pub. Date: April, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.99 |
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Title: The Last Worthless Evening: Four Novellas & Two Stories by Andre Dubus ISBN: 1567920675 Publisher: David R Godine Pub. Date: March, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: I Sailed with Magellan by Stuart Dybek ISBN: 0374174075 Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux Pub. Date: 15 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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