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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
These short-short stories (approximately 2000 words apiece) compiled by the editors of Sudden Fiction and Sudden Fiction International are fiction in a whirlwind. The authors maintain a fast pace and full, vivid characters and descriptions while keeping the stories masterfully short. It would be difficult to choose the best; all are outstanding in one way or another. There are some translations from Czech, French and Spanish that have the feel of oft-told folktales, and the more bizarre selections are interspersed with poignantly ordinary stories. Thomas McGuane's "War and Peace" is the tale of a friendship that cannot withstand change. A professor and student discuss Roman history from different points of view in "The Liberation of Rome" by Robin Hemley. In "Sundress" by Terese Svoboda, two vagrants set up housekeeping in a vacationing family's house, befriending the entire neighborhood, which much prefers them to the real owners. With contributions by Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, William Maxwell and many others (those whose names aren't as recognizable certainly deserve notice), the collection is rich and varied?perfect for reading in the hammock.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Shapard and Thomas clearly have struck a chord, gathering 60 more of the best short-short stories (each no more than 2,000 words long) in their third collection (after Sudden Fiction, 1986, and Sudden Fiction International, 1989, both still in print). These selections, made with the assistance of the editors' colleagues and students, include the work of such established and award-winning authors as Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, William Maxwell, Don DeLillo, Madison Smartt Bell, and Robert Olen Butler and represent styles ranging from realism to fantasy and from traditional to experimental. No reader will embrace each of these stories equally, and some may lament the absence of their own favorite writers of short-short stories (such as Andre Dubus, Binnie Kirshenbaum, and Roxana Robinson). But quibbles aside, this is fiction perfectly suited to the pace of modern life, designed to be read whenever a person can snatch a few minutes of time and savored all the more for it. Michele Leber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
These short-short stories (approximately 2000 words apiece) compiled by the editors of Sudden Fiction and Sudden Fiction International are fiction in a whirlwind. The authors maintain a fast pace and full, vivid characters and descriptions while keeping the stories masterfully short. It would be difficult to choose the best; all are outstanding in one way or another. There are some translations from Czech, French and Spanish that have the feel of oft-told folktales, and the more bizarre selections are interspersed with poignantly ordinary stories. Thomas McGuane's "War and Peace" is the tale of a friendship that cannot withstand change. A professor and student discuss Roman history from different points of view in "The Liberation of Rome" by Robin Hemley. In "Sundress" by Terese Svoboda, two vagrants set up housekeeping in a vacationing family's house, befriending the entire neighborhood, which much prefers them to the real owners. With contributions by Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, William Maxwell and many others (those whose names aren't as recognizable certainly deserve notice), the collection is rich and varied?perfect for reading in the hammock.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Booklist
Shapard and Thomas clearly have struck a chord, gathering 60 more of the best short-short stories (each no more than 2,000 words long) in their third collection (after Sudden Fiction, 1986, and Sudden Fiction International, 1989, both still in print). These selections, made with the assistance of the editors' colleagues and students, include the work of such established and award-winning authors as Margaret Atwood, Alice Walker, William Maxwell, Don DeLillo, Madison Smartt Bell, and Robert Olen Butler and represent styles ranging from realism to fantasy and from traditional to experimental. No reader will embrace each of these stories equally, and some may lament the absence of their own favorite writers of short-short stories (such as Andre Dubus, Binnie Kirshenbaum, and Roxana Robinson). But quibbles aside, this is fiction perfectly suited to the pace of modern life, designed to be read whenever a person can snatch a few minutes of time and savored all the more for it. Michele Leber --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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