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I'm Not Saying, I'm Just Saying (2013)

by Matthew Salesses(Favorite Author)

4.28 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1937865061 (ISBN13: 9781937865061)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Civil Coping Mechanisms

review 1: Matthew Salesses' short flash novel is both poetic and pithy, often leaving me fulfilled and at times wanting to know more. There is subtlety in the pathos presented and it is often tinged with the right amount of surface level humor where neither necessarily takes over. This allows the story itself to progress seamlessly despite the spaces. However, the more I thought about the individual scenes, some merely a paragraph, others a full page, and the collective whole, the more I thought about the power and presence in what Matthew didn't write, what he didn't have the narrator say or do, what was heavy and substantive in between the chapters. I felt that part of the power in the overall story was held in those spaces where the reader was forced to contend with what the narr... moreator might have or should have done. That, for me, made the story more realistic and enjoyable. I applaud the artistic restraint given one of the identities of the novel: how an adult adoptee faces fatherhood. As a reader, the ability to get me to want to know more about a character only to realize that I have everything I need is a true sign of a literary talent.
review 2: Such a unique read; a novel in flash fictions! And I really love the endings. Matthew has a beautiful way of ending a story that both wraps things up and leaves you curious. Once I picked it up, I didn't want to stop reading. Cliché. I KNOW. BUT ALSO TRUE! I carried it from room to room with me and read it in the carpool line, any chance I got. I love the little titles of the shorts and the cover is v. pretty. Goodstuff here, indeed. less

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