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187th out of 1,406 books
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955 voters
All Over
by
Roy Kesey
“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.
Includes “Wait,” a Best American Short Stories 2007 inclusion.
Paperback, 145 pages
Published
October 1st 2007
by Dzanc Books
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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 head and then all 48 hairs...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 head and then all 48 hairs...more
Jan 17, 2009
John
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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
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.
let me enthuselah for 900 years without dying all over
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
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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.
Read the rest of my review on The Short Review.
very good, show offy short stories. reminds me of borges and felisberto hernandez.
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".
I still wish "Asuncion" was in this one.
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Feb 17, 2009
Alan
marked it as to-read
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www.theshortreview.com
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short-stories
got to re-order this as they're out of stock at the amazon marketplace place.
Not bad. Sometimes funny.
Mar 08, 2013
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