![]() ![]() The author can't tell a story for a damn, which unfortunately I require in a book of short stories. ![]() And the language itself is poetic and beautiful and sometimes says the most startling things, but. Over hyped, over rated, did not live up to my expectations.Įvery one of the 8 very short stories in this collection has a wonderful premise - vampires who thirst for something other than blood, team krill at the ice floe of Antarctica, women trapped in a Japanese factory, flocks of seagulls stealing the parts of our future we most need, dead presidents as stabled horses, etc. ![]() Seagull army descends on Strong Beach, 1979 -ĭougbert Shackleton's rules for Antarctic tailgating. Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing classmate that they used to torment a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West has grave consequences and in the marvelous title story, two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try to slake their thirst for blood and come to terms with their immortal relationship. From the author of the novel Swamplandia!-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best. ![]()
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