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Chargement... McSweeney's Issue 53 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern)par Dave Eggers
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. The quality of the stories in the book itself is reasonably good, and my favorites were Skinned, by Lesley Nneka Arimah, and Vinegar on the Lips of Girls, by Julia Dixon Evans. I wasn’t wild about the supplemental “stories” printed on balloons though, as whimsical as it sounds. Call me old-fashioned McSweeney’s, but this isn’t a great medium for print, and besides, the balloons had a strange, off-putting smell to them, which made blowing them up kinda gross … so minus a half a star for that. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Packed in Issue 53's purpose-built plastic bag are eight stories printed on party balloons, which one must blow up to read. Gracing these particolored balloons are arresting new stories from Carmen Maria Machado, Percival Everett, Lauren Groff, Kima Jones, Amelia Gray, Rebecca Makkai, and Sarah Wisby. You'll also find, alongside these eight inflatable stories, a vinyl-bound hardcover book containing electrostatically charged new work from Lesley Nneka Arimah, Jamie Figueroa, Namwali Serpell, C Pam Zhang, and many more besides. Perfect for decorating a birthday party, reading and then popping as a zen meditation, or repeatedly blowing up and releasing in order to observe their whimsical flight around the room, these balloons will provide endless enrichment. Inside Issue 53 you'll uncover a medically inexplicable hunger for forks, a world of unclothed single women, a bevy of dead dads infesting a city, a mystical power within the dismembered torso of a mummified bishop, and oh so much more. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The stories in the vinyl book are terrific and uniformly memorable, but, while I like the concept, the balloon stories are more like puffs of air than real tales. There's also a great excerpt from Daniel Gumbiner's forthcoming book, "The Boatbuilder," which truly made me want to buy the book. ( )