Review: Like modern jazz pieces
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
R.A. Faith might be a painter at heart that cannot use drawing tools and resorts to words. "Sketches..." flows like pictorial stances and includes some surprisingly well developed characters in very short stories. At times I felt a bit frustrated at their shortness as I might have wanted to know more about the what, where and how of those characters.I particularly enjoyed the poetry insertions, such as Colossus, but then I like minimalist stances. I found that I can leave it and start again at a different time and each time discover something new and different. Like a constant source of new beginnings. Being time-travelled to meet Chekhov and his doubts as a writer and  Narcissus as a young boy checking himself out in the car window was entertaining, albeit shortly.