Things Will Never Be the Same: A Howard Waldrop Reader: Selected Short Fiction 1980-2005
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9781618730794 (1618730797)
Publish date: March 17th 2014
Publisher: Small Beer Press
Pages no: 311
Edition language: English
The fascinating thing about Howard Waldrop is how he is able to make each short story completely unique. The author takes an idea and weaves a story out of it that is very different than everything else. This collection somehow defies genre definitions and conventions to ascend to a higher level o...
I came across one of these stories in another anthology and immediately wanted to read more. Waldrop seems sort of like a combination of George Saunders, Richard Brautigan and the Twilight Zone, and (judging from this collection) he seems to write a lot of alt-histories. This book has afterwords b...