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One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, How the Water Feels to the Fishes by Dave Eggers
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One Hundred and Forty Five Stories in a Small Box: Hard to Admit and…

by Dave Eggers

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I'm a huge Dave Eggers fan and his short stories in this collection, How the Water Feels to the Fishes, were thought-provoking and sincere, a common aspect that I find in his other works of fiction. I enjoyed the fact that the books are so small, which somehow makes the stories more enjoyable to me. Deb Olin Unferth's Minor Robberies is full of witty lines and the settings are a nice complement to Eggers. I haven't had a chance to read the third, Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape, but I can't wait to see how the third book finishes the collection. ( )
  AddlestoneBrowsing | Sep 29, 2009 |
I've been sort of skipping around between the three books, but: so far, so good! ( )
  donp | Nov 17, 2008 |
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 193241682X, Hardcover)

In the grand tradition of Neapolitan ice cream, ZZ Top, and Cerberus, the tri-headed guardian of Hades, this set combines individual, short fiction collections by three talented practitioners of the short-short form. Manguso’s Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape is a series of crystalline recollections of her childhood misadventures; Eggers’ How the Water Feels to the Fishes brings a deadpan absurdism to the intimacy and vision of his earlier work; and Unferth’s rollicking Minor Robberies unleashes a horde of off-kilter characters and their indelible misadventures. Each author’s work comes in its own hardcover, foil-stamped volume, and the three volumes are housed in an elegant slipcase.

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