When the Messenger Is Hot: Stories
by Elizabeth Crane
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Through the female protagonists in "When the Messenger is Hot," Elizabeth Crane examines life, often through slightly off-kilter situations, leading her reader through a series of witty, often close to monologues, and quirky events. In the end her characters experience love and loss in ways that are both uniquely theirs and universal.Tags
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While Elizabeth Crane's writing creates a fairly unique voice and often comes at a story from a refreshing angle, this collection of stories doesn't do much to show the range of Crane's abilities. Instead of enjoying a plethora of different ideas, it seems often as if the story is the same only the characters change. I believe that Crane has a great deal of talent, but it is ill served in this collection.
Elizabeth Crane is a genius. The stories in this collection are refreshing for their offbeat characters and her unique writing style. Crane proves the adage that only before one has mastered the rules of writing can one break them.
What a great collection of short stories, some amusing, others unnerving and one or two that made me weep.
I LOVE these stories. I wish more people read Elizabeth Crane because if they did, they would be much happier.
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Elizabeth Crane has been a preschool teacher and a tutor for child actors. She lives in Chicago.
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- Canonical title
- When the Messenger Is Hot: Stories
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- Members
- 151
- Popularity
- 215,864
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.98)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
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