Patrick Somerville
Patrick Somerville is the author of two novels - This Bright River and The Cradle - and two books of short stories - Trouble and The Universe in Miniature in Miniature. He lives with his wife and son in Chicago, and he teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson and Northwestern...
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Patrick Somerville is the author of two novels - This Bright River and The Cradle - and two books of short stories - Trouble and The Universe in Miniature in Miniature. He lives with his wife and son in Chicago, and he teaches creative writing in the MFA programs at Warren Wilson and Northwestern University.
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I want to give this four stars, but I'm pretty sure that extra star would just be because I loved The Universe in Miniature in Miniature so much. It was a good, quick read but I would've liked another hundred pages or so just to flesh out the characters and add some weight to the ending.
I just could not get into this. Many of the pleasures I'd recalled from the author's earlier work are here, but I also kept getting bogged down, remained detached, felt myself dragging through. Read about a third, and decided to set it aside. Look to reviews by others--the novel seems to be getti...
I started reading this book while also reading another book of short stories - 'Elemental'. One was at the apartment I just moved out of and one was at the house I just moved into. I'd read either one during downtime packing and moving. I should probably not read two books of short stories at the sa...
I really liked all of these stories, and felt that this book was a great read that appeals to both males and females equally; complete with darkly comic moments, which I just adore. I have to admit my favorite story of them all ended up being, "The Cold War." It just moved me to no end. If you li...
Patrick Somerville is a master of the short novel. How he snuck a beautiful story of familial love into such a slender novel and captured my attention from the beginning to end is beyond me. However, I can't wait to read more from this author. I'm glad I didn't judge this book by it's cover. A m...
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