All Over

All Over

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“A restlessly inventive collection, as the best story collections so often are—comic and tender, ironic and earnest, deadpan and passionate. A distinctive new voice, from a distinctive new press.”—Peter Ho Davies, author of The Welsh Girl

Includes “Wait,” a Best American Short Stories 2007 inclusion.
Paperback, 145 pages
Published October 1st 2007 by Dzanc Books
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Dennis
Dec 23, 2007 Dennis rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: anyone starved for good stories
It was my own fault.

See, I was only partially-prepared for the pleasure that awaited me--in reading Roy Kesey's debut story collection.

Halfway through, or thereabouts, I felt as though Gabo Marquez had gotten together with Kenneth Fearing, Kurt Vonnegut and Franz Kafka in my brain pan, for collaboration on a manifesto that not even any of those guys know where it's gonna go. By the time I finished reading, suffice it to say that I'd cracked up, misted up, scratched my head and then all 48 hairs...more
John
Jan 17, 2009 John rated it 4 of 5 stars Recommends it for: readers who like a laugh, a shock, a challenge
Recommended to John by: Best American Short Stories, '08
Uproarious yet unsettling, Roy Kesey's first collection of stories combines a joshing respect for the forms he appropriates -- he has fictions based on everything from the job interview (“Interview”) to the international crime thriller (“Follow the Money”) -- w/ a phrase-coining shamelessness. Again & again ALL OVER shoots booming through the cliché barrier into the electrifying pleasures of language off the chain. He works in Americana, deadheaded & mall-worthy, & also in high rheto...more
Heather Fowler
I have always enjoyed Roy Kesey's narrative voice--clever and funny in turns, just as it is poignant. This book of stories was a joy to read. I'd recommend it for anyone who likes Tim O'Brien blended with Borges, blended with that special spark of style that's all Roy Kesey. For lovers of lovers and lovers of stories, I do recommend this book. Kesey had me in his hand. He didn't drop me.
Heidi
let me enthuselah for 900 years without dying all over
Tania
Aug 05, 2009 Tania rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of sharp, clear, minimalist writing which plays with language
Recommended to Tania by: Dzanc books
"Reading Roy Kesey's collection made me happy. Re-reading it soon after made me even happier. This is not because Kesey's stories are hopeful or optimistic. It is because this is a writer so clearly in love with language and rhythm that it is a delight to experience what he does with words – both those we are familiar with and those I suspect he invented. "...

Read the rest of my review on The Short Review.
Tuck
very good, show offy short stories. reminds me of borges and felisberto hernandez.
Myfanwy
This collection is unlike any I've ever read--a wild ride. My two favorite stories in the collection were: "Invunche y voladora" and "Fontanel".
Tim
I still wish "Asuncion" was in this one.
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Alan
Feb 17, 2009 Alan marked it as to-read
Recommended to Alan by: www.theshortreview.com
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Not bad. Sometimes funny.
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