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Field Study
Rachel Seiffert, author of The Dark Room, powerfully evokes our need for human connection in this dazzling and haunting group of stories. Set against immense political upheaval, or evoking the intimate struggles between men and women, parents and children, this astonishing collection charts our desire for love, our fragility, and our strength. From the title piece, in whic...more
Paperback, 224 pages
Published
December 18th 2007
by Vintage
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While I generally find novels far preferable to short stories - this is the second anthology from Seiffert that I have read. "The Dark Room" trilogy was much more powerful (really three short novellas), but I found these to be well written stories that for some reason captured me. A little off the track of what I normally like.
I don't know what it is about short stories, but they usually leave me feeling unsatisfied, like there should be more to it. I have stumbled on a few great collections, but this wouldn't be one of them. It was a good book, it just didn't really move me one way or the other.
I really loved The Dark Room, but in this collection I find Seiffert's writing less clean and spare than I do simply flat and uninspiring. Settings seem vague, and the characters without affect.
European short stories chock full of melancholy. Some have to do with the tension between East and West, a few are set in the past. They slid through my mind like fading pearls. (November 23, 2004)
the apathy in these characters was so disturbing it distracted me from Ms. Sieffert's clean writing style.
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