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Object Lessons: The Paris Review Presents The Art Of The Short Story (2012)

by The Paris Review(Favorite Author)

3.67 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1250005981 (ISBN13: 9781250005984)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Picador

review 1: I bought this book in the hopes that I could learn a thing or two in improving my fiction writing. But as it turns out, the essays which accompanies the short stories within this collection were but brief one or two page essays about what made that story particularly good and fitting for the aesthetics (if any is asserted by the editors through the years) of the Paris Review. I had to adjust my lenses a little bit and battle with the id. This fine collection is for the fiction connoisseur (or, at least, the connoisseur within the student-novice).
review 2: While I enjoyed a few of these stories immensely and some moderately so, there were several "misses" that were very hard to follow and I didn't enjoy reading very much. The introductions were also hit or miss... more. Some directly stated "This is what makes this story awesome", while others just rambled about the author. I often found that I would read the introduction, read the story, and then go back to the introduction to attempt to make sense of what it was meaning to say about the story. I liked the concept, I just felt like the introductions needed more editing and guidance. Worth the read though for the variance of the stories. less

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