Middle Stories [Paperback]

Sheila Heti (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: ANANSI (2001)
• ASIN: B000SSXCQ8
• Average Customer Review: 2.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars disturbing yet understated nightmares, May 1, 2003

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K. Palla "beebop" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Middle Stories (Paperback)

Heti's series of short stories were incredibly surreal yet wholly believable.The undercurrent running throughout is the same one you would expirence in a nightmare where nothing blood-and-guts horrible occurs, but you feel a building sense of or horror anyway. It is disquieting, unsettling, sometimes strangely funny, and I was hooked. For some reason parts of the book reminded me of a Dali painting. This is also one of the few books I've seen who's cover is just as innovative as the stories themselves.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Heti is the real deal, April 1, 2003

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OilCanBoyd (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Middle Stories (Paperback)

the OilCan has to give it up for McSweeney's. This collection will wake you out of your obviously humdrum life. The stories are fantastic and will stay with you long after the reading process is done. O Canada

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Whimsical but Slight, January 11, 2007

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Ichthyornis (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Middle Stories (Hardcover)

Stories that reimagine fairy tales, stories that take odd surrealistic turns, and yet these felt slight to me, not fully imagined, but abandoned.