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Goodnight, Nobody
This luminous new collection of stories from the author of "Dogfight and "Divining Rod astutely explores rediscovered love, reconciliation, and peace amid the trials of everyday life. "Goodnight, Nobody demonstrates Michael Knight's exquisite and "rare power to make a setting breathe, to invest it with a vitality that seems as authentic and intense as t...more
Paperback, 176 pages
Published
December 3rd 2003
by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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I came to know Michael Knight through his novels, Divining Rod: A Novel and the more recent The Typist: A Novel, which I very much enjoyed. This short story collection I found equally entertaining and it's just more evidence of his considerable talent. There are stories here that give a richly evocative sense of place ("Birdland"); one that shows he can experiment with technique (the narrator of "The End of Everything" gives an ongoing commentary on the genre of story he's te...more
The high points in this collection come nowhere near the high points in Knight’s first story collection, Dogfight, but that says more about how great Dogfight was than anything else. Goodnight, Nobody features a shift in Knight’s style as he seems to be working more with the idea of storytelling. The stories feature the same sort of characters that Knight is familiar with, but the manner in which the narrative is revealed has become more experimental. Knight’s still in the realm of realism, b...more
Goodnight, Nobody, Michael Knight's second collection is clearly a departure from his brilliant first collection, Dogfight and Other Stories, but while different, it didn't disappoint in the end.
After just a couple stories, it was obvious that Knight was trying something different, pushing the boundaries of the form out and away from the more traditional story forms in Dogfight. Honestly, because I liked Dogfight so much, it took some time to get used to the stories in Goodnight, No...more
After just a couple stories, it was obvious that Knight was trying something different, pushing the boundaries of the form out and away from the more traditional story forms in Dogfight. Honestly, because I liked Dogfight so much, it took some time to get used to the stories in Goodnight, No...more
Knight is a pretty good miniaturist, and while I don't tend to like slice-of-life short stories too much, I do enjoy his, partly because he draws characters so well and fully, and partly because I like the way he depicts relationships with their attendant rocky patches. That said, I think I preferred his other collection of short stories, Dogfight, to this one. Also, the first story - the one about the parrots and such - kinda sucked, and put me off of the rest of the book for 6 months or so.
Thought I should try one more before I gave up on the whole chick lit genre. Yeah, I don't like chick lit.
As great a collection of short fiction since the Lemon Table by Barnes.
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