Butterfly Stories
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780802115027 (0802115020)
Publish date: November 28th 1993
Publisher: Grove Press
Pages no: 279
Edition language: English
Sigh. How do you rate a book like this? At best, it reminds me of Vonnegut's "Breakfast of Champions," in which I constantly said to myself (or maybe it was aloud), "Wtf, is this really a book, or is it actually the total corruption of a human soul drawn on the pages of a book?" The drawings by Vo...
This is a novel masquerading as a collection of short stories. Because of this approach, the novel consists of a series of vignettes or fragments. And that is, in part, the modern aspect of it. The prose is fairly conventional, though there are a few intersting stream-of-observation passages that a...
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