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toml72's review
5.0
I enjoyed these interrelated short stories and the recurring characters. This much maligned writer as every bit as talented - perhaps more so - than many of his so-called Lost Generation peers. He was certainly a better writer than Joyce and Stein, and at least as good as Hemingway and Fitzgerald.
McAlmon does very well with all the small-town characters without turning them into all out stereotypes. His semi-documentary style along with what one person described as a quirky, entertaining, dark and beautiful evocation of small town American life make this a classic novella which I wish I had read a long time ago.
I agree with the reviewer who said that his work predates the styles of O'Connor, Jackson, and Oates. In fact, it both equals and at times surpasses them.
5/5.
McAlmon does very well with all the small-town characters without turning them into all out stereotypes. His semi-documentary style along with what one person described as a quirky, entertaining, dark and beautiful evocation of small town American life make this a classic novella which I wish I had read a long time ago.
I agree with the reviewer who said that his work predates the styles of O'Connor, Jackson, and Oates. In fact, it both equals and at times surpasses them.
5/5.
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