...the girl half dazed on sidewalk falls over, lays down like she’s home.Black Tickets is a book of startling confessions, refuted sins and daring apathy. It’s beautiful, unsettling and reckless. It’s an acerbic masterpiece which recoils at the thought of refinement and perfection. It belongs to ...
Like finding a rare gem in a out-of-the-way antique store.While I don't quite feel this book deserves the 'heartbreaking work of staggering genius' style reviews slathering the back cover, the stories in it are excellent. Though the first, 'How Mickey Made It,' is a bit overwritten, the subsequen...
Well, this was odd. I'm not sure why this book landed on my bookshelf, since I don't think I've read any of the author's other books, and it didn't come through the normal Mary-book-club path, but there it was, with it's glowing blurbs like, "will rank as one of the great books of [the] decade." ...