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Blue Has No South by Alex Epstein, Aleks Epshtain

elnechnntt's review

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5.0

I picked this up on a complete whim in the second hand book store for two reasons - I fell in love with the cover & I am a little besotted with flash fiction.

Damn. What a whim.

Epstein is a master of flash. I devoured this in one sitting and went back to reread the multiple bookmarked stories I’d made along the way. This is an absolutely perfect collection in my mind - from the story titles, to the mixture of fiction versus non-fiction, and the blending in of philosophy, psychology, religion and mythology.

His prose is divine. The ability to create a world in one sentence (one sentence!!!) is one of the toughest challenges faced by writers and Epstein makes it look impossibly easy.

Just. Perfect.
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