Review: Love modern fiction that reads like literature...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 7, 2013
"The fan clacked on every spin, a ruminant chewing up the air and spitting out a rarefied version. I could not sleep. I lay with my eyes closed, watching the paisley swirls of semi-consciousness paint my inner eyelids with vaguely forming dreams." Karin Cox, "Still Life"This author is a surprise. It's not often that a modern writer, writing contemporary fiction, writes so beautifully. The stories are interesting and, perhaps more importantly, a joy to read. While I love a page-turner, created from nicely drawn characters in a well-crafted plot, truly the books that affect me most deeply and stick with me are more literary. Those books are evocative, eliciting my emotions, thought-provoking, and the writer creates an ambiance, a world of characters, time and place, that I can vicariously experience in the reading. This is the kind of book a person can read and later read again. Who doesn't love a writer with an extensive vocabulary and the intelligence to use it beautifully? If you love language and words, you will loll about in the lovely prose which comprises this book. Bear in mind this is an adult modern writer and the world and lives she writes of are just that... adult and modern. This book is not for prudish Souls. Expect sex, drugs, rocking and rolling, and, possibly, rock and roll, along with life, love and loss, in this prose collection. You will be moved--sometimes it will be terrible and at other times it will be wonderful. I heartily recommend this book. I almost love it. Happy reading~*