New Sudden Fiction: Short-Short Stories from America and Beyond
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (886 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0393328015 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Fast Literary Pleasures." according to Joan Thornton. The questions here don't fit the book, which is an excellent compendium of very short fictions ranging from funny to tragic, from surreal to real, with characters of every sort. Good collection of flash fictions. Quick shifts of perception. Many satisfying reads. I especially liked "T. Yes, I'm Biased: I agree with the editors about how fantastic "Sudden Fiction" is. I've enjoyed flash fiction for a long while now, but it has been more than awhile since I've visited the form.This was an excellent collection to dive back in with, as most every story hit me in some way.The preface discusses how this length and form just seems to "work," as many shor. "It must be a pioneer collection of new sudden fiction." according to Flávio. Marvelous collection of an emerging sub-genre: the new sudden fiction - label given by the editors themselves, Robert Shapard and James Thomas, who decided to split the new genre, the short-short story, "using Solomon's wisdom", into two sub-genres: the new sudden fiction and the flas
Juan José Milás leads an amnesiac husband to an affair in the candlelit darkness of a cathedral with his wife. In the process they discovered both new talents and a wealth of celebrated writers, such as Jorge Luis Arzola, Aimee Bender, Teolinda Gersao, Romulus Linney, Yann Martel, Sam Shepard, and Tobias Wolff. These tales told quickly offer pleasures long past their telling.. Zdravka Evitmova conjures blood drops that cure any disease. Ian Frazier writes public relations for crows. An all-new volumestudents and lovers of literature take note: this is serious writing that's fun to read. Responding to America’s love affair with the short-short, editors Robert Shapard and James Thomas searched thousands of books and magazines to select
. Robert Shapard directed the University of Hawaii MFA program and now lives in Austin, Texas.James Thomas has received two NEA grants and a Stegner Fellowship; he lives in Xenia, Ohio
“It’s a test of the reader’s ability to fly.” (Charles Baxter)“It can do in a page what a novel does in two hundred.” (Mark Strand)