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Baby, Let's Make a Baby: Plus Ten More Stories
by
Kirk Curnutt (Goodreads Author)
Strangers' lives intersect on an Easter-eve interstate . . . A reluctant sniper receives an unexpected education in music . . . A husband withers under the weight of his wife's infidelity . . . The paterfamilias of a rural Brazilian city is shocked by the lengths he's willing to go to fight a tuberculosis outbreak . . . A former teen-pop princes watches in dismay as a docu...more
Hardcover, 263 pages
Published
June 20th 2003
by River City Pub.
(first published June 2003)
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Perfect. Delicious. Brilliant.
Eleven short succulent stories, all of which moved me.
"Overpass" was the first one, and it sucked me in. A story of several very different lives crashing together in time. (Plus, Kirk mentions my favorite Dylan EVER, Blood on the Tracks)
I skipped around from here, going to the story "Sleeping Bear". The title reminded me of my favorite childhood place, Sleeping Bear Dunes. What a treat when the story takes ...more
Eleven short succulent stories, all of which moved me.
"Overpass" was the first one, and it sucked me in. A story of several very different lives crashing together in time. (Plus, Kirk mentions my favorite Dylan EVER, Blood on the Tracks)
I skipped around from here, going to the story "Sleeping Bear". The title reminded me of my favorite childhood place, Sleeping Bear Dunes. What a treat when the story takes ...more
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I wrote a review for this... almost four whole paragraphs, it had words like fallible, disquiet, and weightiness and I realized that it just plain out sucked.
It comes down to this. It's all gibberish and it doesn't do this collection justice. See, even that sentence is just plain dumb.
The right words are failing me lately...whether it be exhaustion, stress, major inferiority complex issues, or all of the above, I don't know.
I finished the last story at 4:...more
It comes down to this. It's all gibberish and it doesn't do this collection justice. See, even that sentence is just plain dumb.
The right words are failing me lately...whether it be exhaustion, stress, major inferiority complex issues, or all of the above, I don't know.
I finished the last story at 4:...more
Jill
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a recommendation spawned from sarah's hate of miranda july. i'll try it anyway.
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I don't usually read short stories, as I just don't feel as invested in them as I do a novel. There were some really well written ones in here, though. My favorites included: "Down in the Flood" and "Call Her Iemanja, But Not in Church." While I liked the overall style of the book, the quality of the stories felt inconsistent. I enjoyed the stories as I was reading them, but nothing compelled me to pick the book back up after putting it down.
You know, I mispacked. This book was supposed to come to Italy with me, where I am for 6 weeks. I thought I'd packed it. Pero donde esta? (lo se, lo se, no es italiano sino espanol)...I was looking forward to finishing Mr. Curnutt's book here at Civitella Ranieri and posting a review. Now it will wait til agosto....no esta bien, eso. Mil disculpas, Sr. Curnutt...
sounds interesting...I like short stories.
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Kirk Curnutt is the author of eleven volumes of fiction and literary criticism. His first novel, Breathing Out the Ghost, won the 2008 Best Books of Indiana competition in the fiction category. It also won a bronze IPPY and was a Foreword Magazine Book of the Year finalist. His second novel, Dixie Noir, was published in November 2009. Other recent works include Key West Hemingway, co-edited with G...more
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