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mondyboy 's review for:
The King Is Always Above the People: Stories
by Daniel Alarcón
There is a sameness to the stories that feature in The King Is Alway Above The People. This isn’t always an issue, I like a writer who is willing to explore the same themes from a number of different perspectives. Alarcon’s themes around fatherhood and class and the divide between the regional and the metropolitan are worth exploring, but having the point of view character be exclusively male meant that tonally the stories begin to blur together.
It says something that my favourite piece, the one that’s worth the cover price of the collection, is the story that genuinely feels out of place. The brilliant and absurdist Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot shows that Alarcon has the range as a writer, I just wish more of it was on display in this book.
It says something that my favourite piece, the one that’s worth the cover price of the collection, is the story that genuinely feels out of place. The brilliant and absurdist Abraham Lincoln Has Been Shot shows that Alarcon has the range as a writer, I just wish more of it was on display in this book.