Books by Laura Furman
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review 1: It's always really difficult to rate a collection. There are stories that I really love and others that are not quite my cup of tea. This collection has a number of really good pieces that I enjoyed reading. By far, my favorite is Ayse Papatya Bucak's "The History of Girls." Ever...
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review 1: The PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories 2012 do what any good anthology does: present a selection of some of the best stories of the year that cover all genres and styles. The selections were mostly impressive, but a few stood out as exceptional such as Slouka's The Hare's Mask, Li's Kind...
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review 1: Another retreat read. While it was fun to skip around and read a bunch of short stories by authors I was unfamiliar with the collection left me a little cold. None of the stories I read were bad but none of them really grabbed me either. My favorite, perhaps the least realistic o...
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review 1: Especially enjoyed the stories by Lunstrum ("The Nursery") and Morgan ("Icebergs"), which share the themes of isolation, geographical and emotional. I couldn't finish a few of the stories that got rave reviews from others, such as Theroux's "Twenty-two stories." That could mean...
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review 1: It's hard to rate an anthology. Some of the stories are really good -- I'm going to reread them before I return this to the library. Others, I lost interest and couldn't finish. Favorites so far: The Particles, Sugarcane, The Summer People, and, if not the whole story, the des...
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review 1: The 2010 edition of this ongoing series is pretty solid overall. The stand outs are not surprising: Annie Proulx's story of a young cowboy and his wife is as spare and brutal as you would expect from Proulx; Daniel Alarcón's tale of a young man learning about his blind uncle is a...
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review 1: the review that hooked me:This wonderful collection of stories deals with the commonplace (coming of age, motherhood, the family dynamic) turned upside down by uncommon events (early terminal illness, violent weather, murderous jealousy). Furman creates dramatic tension with ease...