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Stories V! (2011)

by Scott McClanahan(Favorite Author)

4.49 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0983258961 (ISBN13: 9780983258964)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Holler Presents

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 pretty blurred here, which is fun. In tone these stories are like cousins to the Southern Gothic stuff. Weird people doing strange things in West Virginia fill these pages. Not all the stories were mind-blowing, but the collection as a whole is something pretty special, I think. It really sort of changed my perception about what a short story collection can look and feel like. The stories were funny at times, but also pretty dark.
review 2: I am going to say this upfront: With Stories ... moreV! Scott McClanahan has officially wedged himself into the canon. But which canon. The American Southern oral canon? Yes. The small press indie fiction canon? Yes. The Appalachian hipster canon. That too. McClanahan has always delivered. His first collection, Stories, described the real down-and-out American south beautifully. Stories II, true to its sequential title, continued and strengthened McClanahan’s role as an official voice of the South. Then comes this strangely non-sequentially titled Stories V! to solidify McClanahan as the official voice of the polished (but not too polished), clever (but not too clever) oral story telling southern elite. less

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