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When the Messenger is Hot: Stories by Elizabeth Crane
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When the Messenger is Hot: Stories

by Elizabeth Crane

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While Crane's writing intrigues and touches me in places, for the most part it disappoints. Her voice is vivid and original, but where it might work in a single story, it wears thin over the course of a collection, particularly when so many of the stories are pretty similar. Overwhelmingly they're about relationships, frequently bad ones. Her take on them is ironic, often viewing them as if from a distance. And in fact, the stories which touched me on some visceral level were the ones about family rather than romance, stories about loss and the process of grieving for the loved one.

Over all, I'd say that Crane is badly served by this collection because the sameness of both voice and subject becomes numbing. ( )
dargie | May 4, 2009 |  
I LOVE these stories. I wish more people read Elizabeth Crane because if they did, they would be much happier. ( )
miriamparker | Mar 19, 2009 |  
All books wish they could be this book. ( )
slm0721 | Jul 30, 2007 |  
What a great collection of short stories, some amusing, others unnerving and one or two that made me weep.
viviennestrauss | Dec 31, 1969 |  
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0316608467, Paperback)

Few literary debuts (and even fewer story collections) generate the kind of heated excitement and critical adoration that have greeted WHEN THE MESSENGER IS HOT-but Elizabeth Crane is the exception to many rules. Her stories, celebrated for their hilarity, their wry and intimate tone, and their keen insight, buzz with the acute ache of first loves and first heartbreaks, death and resurrection, addiction and recovery. The women whose lives Crane so tenderly yet unflinchingly opens up to us experience love and loss in a way that is at once uniquely their own and universal.

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