“A restlessly inventive collection, as the best story collections so often are—comic and tender, ironic and earnest, deadpan and passio...
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Dec 23, 2007
Dennis
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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 he More...
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 he More...
Jan 17, 2009
John
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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 rhetorical tones
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Apr 17, 2009
Heather
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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.
Aug 05, 2009
Tania
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"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.
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Jul 19, 2010
Tuck
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very good, show offy short stories. reminds me of borges and felisberto hernandez.
Jan 28, 2008
Myfanwy
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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".
May 07, 2008
Tim
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I still wish "Asuncion" was in this one.
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May 08, 2008
Suzanne
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The best word to describe Roy Kesey is clever, clever in the best sense. I loved this book.
Feb 17, 2009
got to re-order this as they're out of stock at the amazon marketplace place.
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