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Changing the Subject
Fiction. Stephen-Paul Martin has been called "one of our great deadpan humorists," by Eric Basso and "North America's foremost master of the short story" by Vernon Frazer. Marjorie Perloff has described his writing as "wildly comic," and Fanny Howe has called his stories "magnificent and entertaining." In CHANGING THE SUBJECT Martin ...more
Paperback, First Edition, 204 pages
Published
October 10th 2010
by Ellipsis Press
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like a latent werewolf, stephen-paul martin's deceptively simple language belies its righteously rude transformational powers.
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These seem to me to be, in many ways, fictional analogs of M.C. Escher etchings. Stories within stories, within stories, everything dovetailing with everything else, impossible yet possible narrative stairways to nowhere, etc. Very interesting, if technique dominated, work.
One of my top favorite books.
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