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Dream House: Stories (Series in Contemporary Fiction)

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Barbara Bean is one of the best short story writers I have read in a long time. I don't fancy myself a fan of short stories, but she has changed my mind. The details and storylines are absolutly amazing and I love her ideas. She is a huge assest to the writing world and needs to be featured on the ... show! Wow! what a triumph!

This collection is beautiful beyond belief. I have given this book as a gift three times, and each person has said it was one of the best books they had read in (I kid you not) years. Between five and twenty years, depending (again, I kid you not) on the age of the recipient.

These stories are about love, dreams, loneliness, and that aching that comes from being alive, from connecting with some people and ceasing to connect with others...

To give you an idea of the kind of fiction you'll be mixing with if you read it, imagine that the short stories of Jhumpa Lahiri and Charles Baxter had a baby. These short short stories could be that offspring.

Read BB's debut book in 2007. Picked it up again in 2008, and liked her short stories even more the second time around. I hope she develops one of the chapters into a full blown novel, if she already hasn't started one.

Barbara Bean is an amazing writer who's ability to show us the cracks and fractures in our own lives and relationships through her character's is amazing if sometimes unsettling. Bean asks something of the reader when they embark on her stories -- which is what makes her work so d--n amazing.

Bought it, got it signed, and read it in less than 24 hours. This is amazing -- i feel like I know the people in these stories. Can't wait to read her next book!

This book is the best compilation of short stories I've read in years. Any one could be developed into a novel.