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Thunderstruck & Other Stories (2014)

by Elizabeth McCracken(Favorite Author)

4.02 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0385335776 (ISBN13: 9780385335775)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

The Dial Press

review 1: Exceptionally good. Stories informed, one guesses, by McCracken's experiences of grief, and her family's travels, but each very much a fictional creation. Sentences that made me slow down to appreciate every word choice and McCracken's shrewd and pungent sense of humor. I was most strongly affected by by the second ("Property") and the last ("Thunderstruck") but there isn't a weak story in the collection. It's cliche to say this but they reminded me of what (short) fiction can do, and that short stories needn't be slight, or elliptical, or coy, or end in epiphanies; that so much can be revealed about people's complexities in one story that the characters live past the story and inflect one's own life, too (I'm still living with Wes and Helen this morning as I write t... morehis).
review 2: enjoy reading short stories. Elizabeth McCracken has written some good characters. it does seem like most of them have such sad characters and situations. some one is walking away, some is dead on the bed upstairs while a grandson is starving. I am helpfully in that this is a work of fiction and nothing like this exists in real life. did like the story about being sonless. there is not a good title for someone who has a child to die. it is a hole in the ground that you walk around in the daylight and swallows you at night. would probably read something more from this author as this is the first book I have read from her. less

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