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Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters
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Jessica Treat (Goodreads Author)
Jessica Treat’s stories invite readers in, only to make them complicit in transgressive acts, real or imagined: adultery, trespassing , sexual jealousy. Her dark humor and portrayal of consciousness recall authors as diverse as Amy Hempel, Mary Caponegro, and Lydia Davis. Comic, skillful, and menacing, the stories in Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters haunt us long after we’ve fal...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
June 1st 2009
by BOA Editions Ltd.
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I'm sitting here thinking to myself, that it's an absolute shame, that all too often, talented people let us down. There is no direct correlation between being a marvel at some sort of trade -- be it sports, music, or whatever -- and being an interesting and/or truly friendly, good person.
In fact, the chance of running into someone that has great talent, and those two qualities of being both interesting and a good person, is pretty damn rare. The all star baseball player who is fu...more
In fact, the chance of running into someone that has great talent, and those two qualities of being both interesting and a good person, is pretty damn rare. The all star baseball player who is fu...more
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Once again, Jessica Treat has assembled a fine collection of short stories. When I read her previous collection, Not a Chance, it was the female characters that struck me the most. They all seemed to be searching for something. The choices they made were uncomfortable for me as the reader. They acted on things a person would normally only fantasize about doing.
Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters still has some of the same elements of searching and unmet needs, but rather than single women...more
Meat Eaters & Plant Eaters still has some of the same elements of searching and unmet needs, but rather than single women...more
Yeah...I wrote it, whaddya expect?! 4.25 stars? No effin way!
Jessica Treat versus late night bus drunks.
...Read about 50 pages on the way there, and enjoyed greatly, but found I couldn't read at all on the way back, too depressed (my team lost), so will get back to this later.
Later - have now had time to read and re-read, as some of these deft and unsettling stories need. This is an excellent collection, a mix of flash fiction, most centering around a moment: a find (a teacup, a shopping list) or a moment's decision (giving someon...more
...Read about 50 pages on the way there, and enjoyed greatly, but found I couldn't read at all on the way back, too depressed (my team lost), so will get back to this later.
Later - have now had time to read and re-read, as some of these deft and unsettling stories need. This is an excellent collection, a mix of flash fiction, most centering around a moment: a find (a teacup, a shopping list) or a moment's decision (giving someon...more
What a lovely, lovely collection. The characters are so honest and present that some of the stories now feel like what happened in them is part of my own life memories, especially the children's experiences. And the emotion of some of the stories, the subdued tragedy of regular life in them, is also something that stayed with me long after reading (just flipping through them now, that's what comes up as I glance at a line and the story comes back to me), and I'm so impressed by how Jessica can c...more
okay, jessica wins. these stories are great. i really loved almost every one of them; they were vivid and funny and sad and i didnt mind that they were short at all! in fact, i think i liked the really short ones the best. im such an inconsistent beast. just excellent writing all around, and its not my fear of being socially correct in supporting a goodreadser - i am actually grateful these stories were written. i will find the other books and read them since i cant get them in the store - but t...more
The story that'll stay with me from this collection is More Than Winter or Spring. Made me laugh HARD. I could just see my nine- or ten-year-old self doing something like that. I wish I would've thought of it. Then I wouldn't have wasted so many years believing in something that isn't there. Just makes me wanna run out into a cornfield and yell swear words at the sky. No cornfields in my neck of the woods, more's the pity.
Charles
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I loved Jessica Treat's last collection, Not A Chance: Fictions so I've just ordered this one from Book Depository (free delivery worldwide!), and I'm looking forward to it very much!
This book was OK. None of the stories really jumped out at me.
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I was born in Canada but grew up in New England with a year in Spain. I lived in Mexico City for four years in the 1980's and in Brooklyn, NY for five years after that. I'm a writer (I have three story collections), translator, English professor and mother of a teenager, Kai. I am interested in language, culture, art, & politics. At present I live in a small town in the Berkshires (Mass).
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