Nicole's review
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
by Deborah Eisenberg
Nicole's review
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories by Deborah Eisenberg
Nicole's review
rating:
whoa. she writes about things that it seems like you shouldn't, in a way that it seems like you shouldn't. which only means, of course, that no one else does. people compare her to alice munro all over the place which is ridiculous because she is not at all economical with her words. it is liberating to read all that conversational padding in a short story. in the last story, the last two pages take away as much as they give to the reader - they show you that while you thought you had total access to your narrator she was withholding so much. they also really answer the question "why is she telling this story on this day?"
