Brilliant writing. I'm a novice when it comes to reading short stories, but I can't say I loved this book because it was so damn depressing. I don't always need a happy ending, but the lack of resolution in these stories (even though that is clearly the point) kept me from liking it more. I would de...
A fine book by a very interesting manhttp://www.nytimes.com/1998/04/30/arts/gregor-von-rezzori-83-chronicler-of-a-lost-europe-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pmThe book is a compilation of 5 thinly-masked autobiographical remembrances, focusing in the main on his youth and late adolescence in the easte...
Some of these essays I loved, some less so, and some I think I just didn't get, but overall a really fascinating and valuable collection.
I won this book from Goodreads and was a little shocked to see that it was 970 pages - yikes! Clearly not one to sit down and read cover to cover at one time. Fortunately, since it's a collection of four books of short stories, it lends itself nicely to a more gradual reading. I've finished the fi...
No, please.
Blech!I tried to muddle through this collection, but it was difficult. I had no idea what the author was talking about half the time. I couldn't figure out if she just had ADHD or I had an attention deficit disorder of my own. Take, for example, the following passage from the title story"And actu...
Through the first three stories, I felt I was reading something enriching but not terribly enjoyable. It wasn’t dull, the writing was good and the story well set, but it did seem long on monologue. Then I got to the fourth story, “Troth,” which was nothing short of magnificent. What made it magnific...
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