Fiction. "John Woods' THE COMPLETE COLLECTION brings the small-town America of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio into conversation with Italo Cal...
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Oct 16, 2009
Jason
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Reading JDW's intricate little collection of stories about a small town and the covey of strange characters that haunt it, I was initially at a loss in trying to describe it. Here is this sleepy village, populated by tendancies and residents and laws worthy of a strange, pleasant dream. The inanimate shake with life. The episodes are farcical, but at the edge of every joke or wordplay is a hint of seriousness. Or perhaps it's the reverse. Punctuating each story is Wood's artwork, introducing cha
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Aug 11, 2010
John
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Dec 12, 2009
Andy
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A cycle of stories full of a whimsical inventiveness not unlike the French writer Eric Chevillard. Apparently Woods was mentored by Stephen Dixon whose blurb appears on the back cover though his writing style is very different. Hopefully there's a long and productive literary career ahead for this very talented new (to me at least) voice.
Nov 01, 2009
Jason
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The Complete Collection... reads like a fairytale with a cast from the 1980s. For example, pop culture references abound, serving primarily as character names—Optimus Prime, Alf, Hacksaw Jim, Stormshadow, Punky Brewster, etc. The novel’s divided into sections, and each section utilizes an adept, black and white sketch as its preface. Fittingly, every section could stand alone, but, when combined, they do indeed form a coherent narrative....
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Nov 10, 2009
Jamie
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What's really fun about this book is how it works as a collection of, well, people places, and things, in this little village. You move from character to character (many of them recurring), to particular events/settings (i.e., The Canals), and as you keep reading you get the sense that you're the collector, and you keep building a little world as each new person, place, and things winds its way into your possession. A fun fun read.
Aug 28, 2009
Ben
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Both weird and absorbing. Said differently, if in some parallel universe Lars Von Trier and Henry Darger decided to write a flash fiction collection together it just might look a lot like this.
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