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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
stern tells it twice again,
By aegean5 "aegean5" (houston, tx) - See all my reviews
This review is from: One Day's Perfect Weather: More Twice Told Tales (Hardcover)
Daniel Stern has done it again with this next volume of his "twice told tales," re-visitations of poems and stories and symphonies which he manages to transform into gorgeous fictions. These are not mere dramatizations; they are full metamorphoses. In a hilarious example, the story "A Man of Sorrows and Acquainted with Grief," Stern uses Bach's THE PASSION ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN to leap into, of all things, small-town born-again Christian Texas...as seen from the point-of-view of a Jewish high-school orchestra director who gets pulled over for speeding on the interstate. The stories also "riff" off of Robert Frost poems, Wallace Stevens' "The Man on the Dump", W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming" and even Borges. These are stylish and smart, always moving and masterfully composed. Bravo, Stern! |
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One Day's Perfect Weather: More Twice Told Tales by Daniel Stern (Hardcover - September 1, 1999)
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