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Nothing Right (2009)

by Antonya Nelson(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1596915749 (ISBN13: 9781596915749)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Bloomsbury USA

review 1: I'm partial to short stories, and this is such a sparkling collection. My favorite would have to be Or Else - a guy brings his latest girl to a house in Telluride he says belongs to his family, and gets kicked out by the real owners. I also liked People People - the do-gooder genius exposing secret adulterous affairs, Nothing Right - two divorced people and their misfit teenage children, We and They - the hippies vs. the bible thumpers, and Falsetto - a woman whose parents are in an accident trying to make things work with her younger boyfriend and her mature teenage brother. I didn't care much for Shauntrelle, but that was one false note in an otherwise brilliant collection.
review 2: Short stories are often a hard sell for me. This was recommended to me by a ... morepatron, and I started it, and liked it very much. But short stories are all too easy for me to put down, and when I returned to it, fresh off the heels of Olive Kitteridge, it just paled in comparison. I can't quite tell if I liked it or not... I will say it had lovely writing, and, for the most part, completely unlikeable characters. less

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