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Title: Short Shorts by Ilana W. Howe, Irving Howe ISBN: 0-553-27440-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.50

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: A Great Anthology of this Challenging, Unique Genre
Comment: An excellent short short story that is less than 2500 words but more likely around 1500 words or less (as all of the stories in this collection are) is one of the most difficult things in the world to write.
Here, we have a collection of masterpieces of the short-short. While there is not time for character development, these stories are substantive masterpieces, usually boiling down to a single, profoundly revealing action.
Franz Kafka and Leo Tolstoy are just two of the great writers represented here. All of the stories are great. Most of the authors respresented are famous for longer works.
The odd events that occur in these stories stay with the reader, for good.
These short-short stories are very poetic, though they are not musical, or lyrical, or possessed of song, in any substantive way. They are more fiction than poetry, but they have much poetry in them. They are exquisite, little, literary jewels.
I highly recommend this book to everybody.

Rating: 1
Summary: Not artistically representing for having too many translated
Comment: Disappointing since 1/3 of the book is dedicated to foreign authors' translated versions. In the sense of making an anthology of super-short, the selection might come directly from original English instead of any translated, seemingly storytelling-only stories since the brightness of diction is far more important than a "short-short" story itself.

Rating: 5
Summary: "Short Shorts": excellent survey of brevity
Comment: This anthology of "short shorts," that is, stories of less than a thousand words, is a nice overview of this unique literary genre. Working the border between poetry and fiction, these stories are not long enough to develop characters or even have much plot, but they excel in other ways. Like a good pop tune they lack substance but have hooks that capture your imagination. Months later, you will find yourself thinking of the odd happenings and subtle jokes that these short shorts depict. Most of the writers are well known for their longer fiction, but some seem to shine brightest in a brief flash. --David Monac

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