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Women I've Known: New and Selected Stories

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I'm a bit surprised that this hasn't been reviewed yet, but I see that the author has other collections and some of those stories are in this new one, and I suppose I'M the one that's late to the party.

I came across this book the other day and have had a hard time putting it down since I started it (I know I say that a lot, but I guess it's because I have impeccable taste *chuckle*).

I started reading at 9 pm...finally put it down several hours later...and now I'm getting anxious because I only have ten stories left to read and I CAN'T stop. I haven't felt like this since my last coke binge; this is an exquisite story binge and I can't stop til every word has been hoovered, has hit the pleasure receptors in my brain and has left me breathless!!! LOL

But SERIOUSLY - each story is SO absorbing that you can actually read this book from cover to cover as if it were a novel, perhaps a lush and riveting, sometimes provocative and scary novel-in-stories about the inhabitants of Georgia. As a New Yorker, I'm not too familiar with the writers of the "New South", but I am so glad that I have this book. The writing is absolutely beautiful; when I say that he is a writer's writer it makes me think of the quote that a writer "strings words together like small children do with beads, happily absorbed in the process, putting one after another", and you can tell that while his work is subtle and RICH, his efforts were surely painstaking.

I am so smitten with this book. I also have the 2007 New Stories from the South edited by Edward P. Jones to see what else I'm missing once I'm done with this one, but I had to come on here and give the man his props cause he deserves them.

Buy and read at ONCE.