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A Peculiar Feeling Of Restlessness: Four Chapbooks Of Short Short Fiction By Four Women (2008)

by Amy L. Clark(Favorite Author)

4.45 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0978984838 (ISBN13: 0000978984830)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Rose Metal Press

review 1: If you're a fan of flash fiction, this book is essential. A Peculiar Feeling of Restlessness collects in one volume four different short-short chapbooks from four different writers, all remarkably different, all remarkably adept at the craft. There isn't a weak one in the bunch. My very favorite is Kathy Fish's "Laughter, Applause, Laughter, Music, Applause," alone worth the price of the book. If J.D. Salinger wrote flashes, they'd be somewhat like hers. But this comparison might be doing her work a disservice; her voice is entirely and uniquely her own.
review 2: tiny little stories that cast huge shadows over everything. you might be hurtling through tunnels in new york city or driving along concrete highways in dallas and sentences stay with you, illuminati... moreng and making every crack in the sidewalk stand out. every lightpost with anti-war grafitti shine. overflowing public garbage cans become still-lifes. you get to elizabeth ellen's story, how the homeless funambulist and lonely somnambulist met and shared a melon, and you shut the book and take in the light that comes in through your dirty rented window and settles perfectly in a square on your rented hardwood floor. you stop for one moment and everything falls away. a breath. before it all comes crashing back to you. a cold radiator or the chugging of the window air conditioner. less

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