Bedlam: Short Stories [Paperback]

John Domini (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 134 pages
• Publisher: Fiction Intl; 1st edition (December 1981)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0931362032
• ISBN-13: 978-0931362033
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,622,443 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars weird and fascinating, May 2, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bedlam: Short Stories (Paperback)

Slip into an easy chair and slide into another universe. This set of short stories wends its way through recognizable, contemporary America and fantasy.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really imaginative, funny, wide-ranging short fiction, December 25, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Bedlam: Short Stories (Paperback)

Wow! Mr. Domini has taken us to some fascinating places indeed. Among these are Hell, after Judgement Day -- and that's in what turns out to be a love story -- and the mind of a celebrated Vietnam vet wrestling with his first difficult taste of adultery. The writing itself is really something, almost poetry at times, and the plotlines shock me with their surprises and their humor. Great, lively stuff.

5.0 out of 5 stars VARIED, DEEP, PLAINTIVE AND INSIGHTFUL., April 28, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Bedlam: Short Stories (Paperback)

John Domini, even as far back as 1976 when BEDLAM was first issued, could write about anyplace, anytime, anybody: a soldier, a stockbrocker, a banker, a devil. AND make the writing read effortless--straight from the brain, to fingers, to paper. I picked up this story collection out of curiosity after reading HIGHWAY TRADE (Red Hen Press, 1997) and getting hooked on Domini. I got hooked on BEDLAM too, on Young Domini's sophistication, wit and imagination, but especially on his ability to tailor voice and language to each story.

In the first story, "Over 4000 Square Miles," Domini writes about a former prisoner of the Vietnam War on a trip to the Florida Everglades where a TV docu-drama of this wartime experiences is being filmed. "Hartley always thought he'd be a success at adultry." But he doesn't succeed. Following a fling with a woman with "almond French-Canadian eyes," he winds his way through the Everglades "in a black and silver fit of searching for where he would die." But he doesn't do that either.