Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
by:
Lauren Groff (author)
From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel The Monsters of Templeton, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in recent years.
From Lauren Groff, author of the critically acclaimed and bestselling novel The Monsters of Templeton, comes Delicate Edible Birds, one of the most striking short fiction debuts in recent years.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781401340865 (1401340865)
Publish date: January 27th 2009
Publisher: Voice
Pages no: 306
Edition language: English
De repente caigo en un libro que está entre mis recomendaciones sin fijarme mucho de que se trata. Después de todo, he encontrado tantas cosas buenas o al menos interesantes en esas recomendaciones que asumo que hay algo para mi ahí. Este libro me llamó la atención por su portada y el título. Espera...
4.5 starsA lot of short stories consist of 10-20 pages of foreplay followed by a big cow flop of a denouement, with nary a climax in sight. Some don't even bother with a denouement, they just end abruptly, leaving the reader with the literary equivalent of lover's nuts. I have given up on many and...
The prose is lovely, but the stories (thus far) are a little uninteresting in themselves. It's a strange balance.