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When All Our Days Are Numbered Marching Bands Will Fill the Streets & We Will Not Hear Them Because We Will Be Upstairs in the Clouds
by
Sasha Fletcher (Goodreads Author)
Fiction. "My advice: those who are to read Sasha Fletcher's delightful enjoinder WHEN ALL OUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED should go into an empty house of an afternoon, shut themselves in a backroom closet on a low shelf, and read straight through without stopping"--Jesse Ball. "Sasha Fletcher, with his dream catastrophes and immense loves, can wand us into a new world. Here is a st...more
Paperback, 89 pages
Published
June 1st 2010
by Mud Luscious Press
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i wrote it. i am awful partial.
I can't describe this book. The only thing I can do is leave you with a couple really great and really long quotes.
1) There was a bit of iceberg left. I put it in a glass. It could be a nice pet I said. We could move it later to a bucket, or an above ground pool. What happens after that you were wondering. We bring it to the Delaware I said.
One day it will make it to the Atlantic & it will find all the other icebergs & it will be happy.
One day it will ram into a passenger cruise ship &...more
1) There was a bit of iceberg left. I put it in a glass. It could be a nice pet I said. We could move it later to a bucket, or an above ground pool. What happens after that you were wondering. We bring it to the Delaware I said.
One day it will make it to the Atlantic & it will find all the other icebergs & it will be happy.
One day it will ram into a passenger cruise ship &...more
sasha has an ability to capture an energy and let that energy build. this should be read in one sitting (something i haven't done as i took a break from the book last night to eat dinner. i plan on reading the last 20 or so pages tonight. will update after i finish the book). i think that sasha fletcher will continue to expand his writing into even more incredible worlds. i can't wait to read his future books.
Jun 10, 2010
Stacey Tran
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this novel(la) could have gone on for another hundred miles, and i wish it did. when all our days are numbered... might be just as delightful if read from the very last word to the first. sasha fletcher's command of language is--well--have you seen the title? pick it up. devour it. let it devour you.
sasha masterfully accomplishes a few extremely difficult things in this book.
he is surreal and abstract while maintaining a convincing and interesting narrative. he is able to surprise you with something new every paragraph but also keep you plowing forward to find out what happens next. this creates a strange blend of wild impossibility with a very grounded and sympathetic story. somehow the narrator and the girl seem real and believable and their relationship is relevant and interesting even...more
he is surreal and abstract while maintaining a convincing and interesting narrative. he is able to surprise you with something new every paragraph but also keep you plowing forward to find out what happens next. this creates a strange blend of wild impossibility with a very grounded and sympathetic story. somehow the narrator and the girl seem real and believable and their relationship is relevant and interesting even...more
As I read this novella I am reminded of an exhibit I saw at the New Museum - Paul Chan - The Seven Lights. Cut out silhouettes of varying color and shapes - birds, telephone poles, houses, cars, cows and people were projected against the walls of the museum. As you progressed through the museum, through Chan's depiction of this eventful day, you slowly realized through the falling tree, birds, telephone poles and people that the exhibit depicted an apocalypse. This book is like that except it is...more
I would give this book more than five or ten stars. This book sails above numbers. Beyond numbering or lettering. It cannot even hear my applause, this book. Read it. More than one time.
I have read this twice now and it keeps getting better. I can't touch this book without flipping to a page and reading a bit and getting excited all over again. This is everything i love about surreal, poetic narrative writing (my favorite type of writing) distilled down to its most essential elements. I was completely emotionally engaged and ready for the ride, the rabbit-hole it was taking me down. It was sad, hilarious, delightful, touching, just everything in perfect balance. I can't say eno...more
Inventive and enjoyable to read. The surrealism is wildly creative and fun, as was the interactions between the narrator and she.
Moments of true beauty in this, particularly the very last paragraph.
If I had known this book had throat punching, I would have read it sooner.
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