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I Mille Volti Del Giallo (2013)

by George Pelecanos(Favorite Author)

3.57 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

885414312X (ISBN13: 9788854143128)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Newton Compton

review 1: Nice to see the definition of a "mystery" expanded. And fun to see that many top tier mags are publishing crime fiction--Tin House, Harper's, The New Yorker, The Southern Review. But now I've sold my soul, went and done something bad like give a nod to all those mags who don't need nods and get them all too often. I will say that I will now subscribe to a few smaller lit-mags based on the quality of their fiction that appeared in this anthology. Check it out. This book, I mean. It's good and fun and surprising in many ways.
review 2: I saw this book on the coffee table in the family room sometime in January at my parents' house. My mom likes mysteries. I knew she'd gotten it as a Christmas present. I've never been a big fan of the genre. I looked inside. ... more"Thomas Friedman", was scrawled on the title page. I didn't recognize the handwriting. "Who gave you this book?" I asked.My mom looked at me quizzically, "You did!" "No, no I didn't.""You and Jeff did, for Christmas!""No, it must have been Leslie and Dave" (my sister and her husband.)"Hmm. Maybe. I thought you did."I was certain that I, that we had not. But I had been very, very sleep deprived (baby who was not sleeping well) for a long time at that point."Well, who's Thomas Friedman?" I asked her"Who?!?""Thomas Friedman, his name is written here on the title page, did you write this?""No-?...Thomas Friedman. Tom Friedman...I don't know!?"My sister's husband managed a coffee shop at the time. My brilliant powers of deduction went to work."Well, Dave must have found this lying around the store and it was in good shape, brand new even, and they're broke, you and Dad are hard to buy for, so I guess he probably re-gifted it and didn't realize it belonged to Thomas Friedman, who probably was pissed off when he realized he forgot his brand new book in the stupid Coffee Bean...""I don't know. Maybe. But I don't think Dave would do that. But I don't know. Could be" She wasn't as interested in this as I was. She also wasn't that interested in the book, preferring mystery novels to just short stories. She was folding laundry and watching 'Nature' on PBS when we had this conversation.I borrowed the book and brought it home to San Diego. I read a bunch of stories right away then forgot it for awhile. I remember being a little disdainful that one of the stories "Child's Play" also appeared in "The Best American Short Stories of 2008" - It's a very chilling, good story, but still. Couldn't they have found something else?A week or so later, Jeff asked me if my mom had read it and liked it. I said no, I didn't think so, she hadn't cared that I'd borrowed it. He said "Oh well, I guess I won't get it for her again." "What?""I got that for her for Christmas.""Oh." I felt a little let down. I guess I wanted Dave to have re-gifted it. That was just funnier."Hey", I said, "Who's Thomas Friedman?" less

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