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Title: Head: Stories
by William Tester, Amy Hempel
ISBN: 1-889330-48-5
Publisher: Sarabande Books
Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000
Format: Hardcover
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $19.95
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Average Customer Rating: 3.83 (6 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: Beautiful
Comment: Beautiful spare stylish prose with great movement. Couldn't put it down until I finished every story. Especially wowed by "Wet" and "Bad Day."

Rating: 1
Summary: empty
Comment: where is the heart in any of theses stories by W. Tester? While brilliantly crafted, "Head" lacks, on the whole, substance. I felt a bit like Dorothy in the land of Oz... disappointed...there is no wizard, only a rumpled old man playing games behind a curtain... Sincerity on the author's part, the beating of a real heart within the stories, would certainly enoble this work. While he is certainly a wordsmith... certainly learned his "chops" and earned his MFA, the stories seem like literary exercises... formulaic at best. Tester plays petty games with his readers... One feels that he writes for an especially narcissistic club of perhaps three or four others within his super hip literary world. Tester's language is beautiful, but ultimately empty... his stories functioning as literary exhibitionism in the worse sense. Where is the truth, the spirit or soul in "Head"? Disappointing... I'd much rather read James Salter, Denis Johnson, or Lorrie Moore... not a poor attempt to parrot them.

Rating: 5
Summary: This Book Was Not Co-authored
Comment: William Tester wrote it, brilliantly, all by himself.

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