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matthewcpeck 's review for:
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned
by Wells Tower
Lives up to the critical adoration. All of Wells Tower's stories - with one notable exception - are about frustrated males. Divorcees, runaways, failures, angsty teens. The descriptions, dialogue, and characters are all convincing, if often discomfiting.
The biggest surprise is the title story, a super-gory first-person account of a group of Vikings sacking Lindisfarne told in a contemporary, Daniel Woodrell-esque vernacular. Its works so well and feels so immediate, that I'm surprised that this type of unconventional historical fiction isn't more prevalent.
Anyway - if you care about short stories, this book is one of the essential selections of the last ten years. I eagerly await Wells' follow-up, whenever it comes...
The biggest surprise is the title story, a super-gory first-person account of a group of Vikings sacking Lindisfarne told in a contemporary, Daniel Woodrell-esque vernacular. Its works so well and feels so immediate, that I'm surprised that this type of unconventional historical fiction isn't more prevalent.
Anyway - if you care about short stories, this book is one of the essential selections of the last ten years. I eagerly await Wells' follow-up, whenever it comes...