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McSweeney's #43 (2013)

by Dave Eggers(Favorite Author)

3.49 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1938073207 (ISBN13: 9781938073205)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

McSweeney's

series

McSweeney's Quarterly Concern

review 1: McSweeney's 43 is another fantastic collection of short fiction and nonfiction. My favorite story from this collection was TC Boyle's "Burning Bright," a piece filled with foreboding and a slow-building dread. There's also a great essay by a young woman whose father was caught up in the war on terror and a piece of long-form journalism from the front lines of the Libyan revolution. Finally, it's bundled with a collection of short fiction from South Sudan, giving voice to a people and nation who have had their voices silenced all-too-often. A great read.
review 2: This is one of the slimmest issues of McSweeney's yet (although it is packaged with another anthology), but it's also one of the more focused. I loved the short story by TC Boyle, a writer I shouldn't... more be ignoring. There are also two terrific non-fiction pieces; one a young woman's accounting of visiting her father in prison (he's been convicted of supplying money to terrorists, despite the fact that the organization he supported was also receiving funds from USAID at the same time), and the other a description of the fight to liberate Tripoli during the Libyan uprising.The other stuff in here is very good too. less

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