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Chargement... Songs for the Deafpar John Henry Fleming
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A little desert town gets a sexual charge from a crash-landed alien. A dysfunctional family tries to summit Everest with "discount Sherpas" and yakloads of emotional baggage. A teen messiah emerges from a game of 3-on-3. The stories in John Henry Fleming's "Songs for the Deaf," the first story collection by the "marvelously inventive" and "winningly satiric" author of "The Legend of the Barefoot Mailman," put an intimate and modern spin on the American tall tale. Stories in the collection have appeared in "McSweeney's," "North American Review," "Atticus Review," "100% Pure Florida Fiction," and elsewhere. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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My favorite is “The Day of Our Lord’s Triumph (with Marginal Notes for Children)” in which the story of a neighborhood pick-up basketball game is told in biblical parable. Lust-inspiring aliens are among us in “Xenophilia.” A truly disastrous family climb of Mount Everest inspires some wicked black humor in “Chomolungma.” Fleming even approaches love from a strange place in “Song for the Deaf.”
Sometimes facts are hidden from the reader for a little longer than I’m comfortable with, but it’s a minor issue. The stories earn respect the deeper you go into the collection.
Fleming has calculated the stories in this collection were rejected a total of 233 times before they found their original homes in various publications. That doesn’t speak to the quality of the stories – just to the difficulty of publishing short stories, even for accomplished writers. ( )