Books by Scott McClanahan
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review 1: (First I want to note that the book cover has nothing to do whatsoever with the stories. I think it's a joke.) Here's a collection of bizarre stories of small-town life. The narrator of these stories is also named Scott McClanahan and so the lines between fiction and reality are ...
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review 1: This is a fine novel well wrought, entertaining, precise, bittersweet, authentic. This is a writer who knows the craft of writing, who makes every word, every sentence work; nothing is superfluous. The style matches the tone of each chapter. Read this book and you will be fulfil...
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review 1: Wow, this was an amazing book. I don't know how to describe it. It's certainly not an Appalachian Minstrel Show, as the author declares. It goes deeply into the mountain life in, I think, Fayette County. This is a way of life that I never experienced, despite my 25 years ther...
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review 1: Yeah, I know, you've read collections of short stories about down-and-outers in Appalachia and many of those collections (Donald Ray Pollack's work for one) are excellent. McClanahan's stories feature an undercurrent of metafiction/confessional memoir that give the already heartb...
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review 1: Scott is the kind of writer who makes you believe writing is easy, but when you try to write your own thoughts/stories down you realize that you will never be able to turn words into magic. He is the kind of writer that writes with a voice so loud you can feel the warmth of his b...