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Paradise Stories
by
Dustin Heron (Goodreads Author)
Fiction. Short Stories. "The Wright family lives in Chico with a little herd of goats and an exploded septic tank that drowns their yard, their interiors, their whole desperate souls with sewage, and that's just one of the hurdles they face in Dustin Heron's collection of linked PARADISE STORIES. In lesser hands his excremental invention might have lapsed into adolescent g...more
114 pages
Published
January 1st 2007
by Small Desk Press
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Nov 28, 2007
Dustin
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5 of 5 stars
· (Review from the author)
Recommends it for:
everyone
Shelves:
all-time-favorites
You can buy it here: Small Desk Press
I cannot be objective about this book for a number of reasons.
One: Dustin was a student in a class I was a teaching assistant in. I count him as a good friend.
Two: In that class he brought in early drafts of the short stories that became the crux of this book. I and others offered him critiques on those drafts.
Three: Dustin is a hopeless 49ers fan. They had a couple of "okay" quarterbacks in the 80s, but that's as far as this Raiders fan will admit.
Now, on to the book itself.
Paradise Stories is...more
One: Dustin was a student in a class I was a teaching assistant in. I count him as a good friend.
Two: In that class he brought in early drafts of the short stories that became the crux of this book. I and others offered him critiques on those drafts.
Three: Dustin is a hopeless 49ers fan. They had a couple of "okay" quarterbacks in the 80s, but that's as far as this Raiders fan will admit.
Now, on to the book itself.
Paradise Stories is...more
My press published this book.
This review can never be objective.
I enjoyed publishing this book.
I am in the process of helping to publish other books.
This book, even though I published it, is really good.
Someone once described Dustin's writing as a mix between E. Annie Prouix and David Sedaris. I think those kinds of descriptions are not really that helpful but they make for great promotional tie-ins.
Here are some promotional tie-ins:
"Paradise Stories is what would happen if Prouix and Sedaris...more
This review can never be objective.
I enjoyed publishing this book.
I am in the process of helping to publish other books.
This book, even though I published it, is really good.
Someone once described Dustin's writing as a mix between E. Annie Prouix and David Sedaris. I think those kinds of descriptions are not really that helpful but they make for great promotional tie-ins.
Here are some promotional tie-ins:
"Paradise Stories is what would happen if Prouix and Sedaris...more
Not for everyone. By the middle of the book you are up to your chin in shit. You can all most taste the stuff and certainly smell it.
That said, this is a book that takes you places you will never go otherwise. The characters are strong and real. But what does it for me is the writing. Strong spare sentences. This is muscular prose of the best kind.
That said, this is a book that takes you places you will never go otherwise. The characters are strong and real. But what does it for me is the writing. Strong spare sentences. This is muscular prose of the best kind.
Oct 05, 2007
Ajloudermilk
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My sister-in-law bought this for me after I requested books for my birthday. This one was penned by someone she knew, so I gave it a shot. At first I wasn't quite sure if I would like this novel (or novella? it barely stretches beyond 100 pages) featuring a talking pile of shit, but there was one supernatural story that stuck with me. Heron hits a lot of big topics -- poverty, family, death -- in his slender work, but his characters are always approachable. No way I would have found my way to th...more
Excellent book...Highly sophisticated...Intelligent beyond reason...a book that will last the ages...comparitive to the works of Plato and Socrates...especially the shit monster...
Thanks for leaving me out of the book, Dick!
Thanks for leaving me out of the book, Dick!
Dec 12, 2007
Zulema Renee Summerfield
rated it
5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
steaming piles of poop like you
this book is the shit. seriously. and i'm not just saying that because dustin wrote it and i owe him twenty bucks and i'm hoping my rave review will cancel that out.
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Dustin Heron is currently a graduate student at San Francisco State University. His first book, Paradise Stories, was released in March 2007.
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