Not a Chance: Fictions
by:
Jessica Treat (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781573660891 (1573660892)
Publish date: November 30th 2000
Publisher: Fiction Collective 2
Pages no: 169
Edition language: English
I don't like short stories. There, I said it. It's a personal failing and my loss, I admit. Oh there are short stories I do like, but I almost never seek them out and can't remember the last time I read a collection. See, the worst thing for me is getting to know characters, becoming involved in the...
Neurotic, broken, lonely, desperate, longing people fill these stories. Many of them tell of doomed relationships, character studies in failure. A brilliant collection chock full of unreliable narrators and painful truths."Ants" -- Great opening paragraph. Interesting POV choice. It's the story of M...
Just finished. I didn't appreciate all the stories equally much, but the ones I liked --- "Walking", "Not a Chance", "Nicaraguan Birds", "His Sweater", I really liked. It's a mark of how affecting I found them that I feel somewhat uncomfortable explaining just why I appreciated these more than the o...
16 years ago
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