Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
There are not many writers who can write such beautiful skillful prose, and he is funny and effective in many of the stories, but in too many places the extreme intellectual structures poke through and ring hollow, and the cleverness of it all is sometimes just annoying.
I fell in love with Harry Mathew's writing after hearing Isaiah Sheffer read his convoluted short story Country Cooking From France. This collection is some of the most brilliant metafiction I've ever come across.
There are not many writers who can write such beautiful skillful prose, and he is funny and effective in many of the stories, but in too many places the extreme intellectual structures poke through and ring hollow, and the cleverness of it all is sometimes just annoying.