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Title: Women and Other Animals: Stories by Bonnie Jo Campbell ISBN: 1-55849-219-4 Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press Pub. Date: November, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.62 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Deeply interesting, creative, and enjoyable!
Comment: This collection of short stories has something to offer for *everyone*. Bonnie Jo Campbell is a brilliant writer--fresh, complex, intriguing, and unique. Each story was written with rich images, humorous and captivating characters, and realistic settings. I would recommend Bonnie Jo's work to anyone--she's taught me more about fiction writing than any instructional book could. Definitely support this author's work!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Stories from the Midwest
Comment: This remarkable collection of stories creates a bright and vivid universe of characters, situations, and places you won't soon forget. In her admirably straightforward and unaffected prose, Bonnie Jo Campbell introduces her readers to an evocative cast of Midwestern women both ordinary and extraordinary who--by a fantastic variety of means--are finally claiming the power they deserve. My favorite story--though it's hard to choose a favorite because every story in the book delivers--is "Circus Matinee," in which Big Joanie, a circus sno-cone vendor, confronts a terrifying situation when a tiger escapes from its cage. Big Joanie's story is one among many in this collection that you definitely don't want to miss. If you read only one collection of short stories this year, make sure this is the one!
Rating: 5
Summary: Can't wait for her next book!!!
Comment: Ms. Campbell writes with a strong voice and tells stories that feel very real. She manages to combine an interesting (often fascinating) storyline with characters which we, as readers, want to know better. Her writing is fearless; her stories and, indeed, the paragraphs within the stories, begin with an unusual strength and assurance, they call out to the reader, her writing draws us inside the world of her characters and makes us want to read on.
I can best explain this by quoting from her story, "Goriila Girl", this is the opening line; "When beer is mixed and left to ferment and bread is set out to rise, they sometimes collect wild yeasts; these foreigners drop out of the jet stream or rise up from the bowels of the planet, unwelcome particles which give the finished product a sharp flavor. I suspect this is what happened to my mother when she was pregnant with me."
Now, this is a story I want to continue reading!!
When reading these stories, one is left with the feeling that the writer has a great deal of information about the world, about people - she is obviously "an observer" and her dialogue and narration demonstrate her keen powers of observation. In her story, "The Fishing Dog", a man says to another character; "You act like a girl who was raised by wolves." He smiled. "They don't like to be in enclosed spaces."
I enjoyed this book of stories immensely and look forward to her next book and the one after that and the one after that.
It comes as no surprise to me that Ms. Campbell has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize by none other than Joyce Carol Oates, for one of the stories in this collection, "The smallest Man in the World."
I believe that we will be hearing a great deal more about Ms. Bonnie Jo Campbell.
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Title: Q Road : A Novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell ISBN: 0743203666 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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