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Jim Breslin
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“Elephant: Short Stories and Flash Fiction” was released as an e-book on April 25th, 2011 and a week later became available in paperback. It’s been a tremendously satisfying year and I’ve been overwhelmed by the personal notes from friends and readers who have been moved by the book. From the launch held at BookPlace, to the multiple book club discussions and writer group presentations, this pa...
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Elephant
  4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Chester County Fiction
by Jim Breslin (Goodreads Author), Sue Gregson , Christine Yurick  4.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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| Paul Lisicky writes beautiful prose. This is the story of Isidore, a delicate loving man who is a bit lost in life. He loves his wife but has an affair. He also covets his wife's sister. He meanders through houses that are being constructed in his to...more | |
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We read the novel for class and I have to say the narrative was very poetic . However, Isidore was a man struggling to do the right thing...like not sleeping with his sister-in-law. He seemed like a coward to me from beginning to end.
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| Eh. I think the Art of Fielding will forever be associated with the Art of Hype. Knowing all the hype about it, I saw this on my local library shelf and picked it up for a read. About 150 pages in, I was tempted to abandon it. I thought let me check...more | |
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| When I was 60 pages in, a friend asked me what I thought and I wasn't sure how to respond. But by 120, I was sold. This is an interesting experiment in interlinked short stories that constitute a novel. In my mind, they are more short stories than no...more | |
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| I've been a Bob Mould fan since the days of Husker Du, so I was very interested to read about his life as a musician. He talks about his life growing up in upstate NY and moving to Minnesota for college where he met Hart and Norton and formed the sem...more | |
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| An interesting look into the fictional life of a smart, troubled, quiet teenager. Written in the first person perspective as a series of letters written to a stranger, (Postsecret anyone?) this tells about the boy's freshman year in high school after...more | |
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So what is a middle-class old woman who seldom drinks and never fights doing reading this book?
Enjoying the hell out of it. " |
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| This is the first book of poetry from Bukowski I have read. I'm floored. I can see why he is mentioned as a poet first and foremost. These poems are all about women, love, sex and death, which is really all that matters that matter in a man's life an...more | |
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| Recently finished Bukowski's "Women." I enjoyed this, though I must warn you this is not for everyone. It's not a fairytale, but it is gritty realism - with details of living the lowlife in East Hollywood. For those that don't know, Henry Chinaski is...more | |
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