- Hardcover: 300 pages
- Publisher: Akashic Books (Sep 1 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 193335447X
- ISBN-13: 978-1933354477
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 16.5 x 2.8 cm
- Shipping Weight: 748 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #745,284 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Spanning worlds, generations, cultures and environments, each of Meno's short stories in this stellar collection explores depression, loneliness and insanity in the world, while never quite offering a clear solution or glimmer of hope. Misery loves company, and Meno's assortment of off-center, morose characters fit seamlessly together. Even with their almost kitschy specificity, stories such as I Want the Quiet Moments of a Party Girl and Art School Is Boring So never become pretentious or unnecessarily complex. Meno plays with supernatural elements throughout the collection, and his risky moves—such as having a protagonist turn into a cloud in People Are Becoming Clouds or a woman whose insides are overrun by a miniature city in Airports of Light—always pay off. Each story is illustrated by a different artist, from Schizo series cartoonist Ivan Brunetti to the husband and wife duo kozyndan, known for their depictions of modern cityscapes. Catering to all the odd men out in the world, this short story collection succeeds word to word, sentence to sentence, and cover to cover. (Aug.)
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Book Description
Demons in the Spring is a collection of twenty short stories by Joe Meno, author of the smash hits The Boy Detective Fails and Hairstyles of the Damned, with illustrations by twenty artists from the fine art, graphic art, and comic book worlds--Todd Baxter, Kelsey Brookes, Ivan Brunetti, Charles Burns, Nick Butcher, Steph Davidson, Evan Hecox, Kim Hiorthoy, Paul Hornschemeier, Cody Hudson, Caroline Hwang, kozyndan, Geoff McFetridge, Anders Nilsen, Laura Owens, Archer Prewitt, Jon Resh, Jay Ryan, Souther Salazar, Rachell Sumpter, and Chris Uphues.
Oddly modern moments which occur in the most familiar of public places, from offices to airports to schools to zoos to emergency rooms: a young girl who refuses to go anywhere unless she’s dressed as a ghost; a bank robbery in Stockholm gone terribly wrong; a teacher who’s become enamored with the students in his school’s Model United Nations club; a couple affected by a strange malady—a miniature city which has begun to develop in the young woman’s chest, these inventive stories are hilarious, heartbreaking, and unusual.
Joe Meno is the best-selling author of the novels Hairstyles of the Damned, The Boy Detective Fails, How the Hula Girl Sings, and Tender As Hellfire. He was the winner of the 2003 Nelson Algren Award for short fiction and is a professor of creative writing at Columbia College Chicago.
*A portion of the author's proceeds from the book will go directly to benefit 826 CHICAGO, a nonprofit tutoring center, part of the national organization of tutoring centers with branches in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City, and Seattle.*
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Demons in the Spring was my Angel in the Fall, Nov 26 2010
By tracy rubino - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Demons in the Spring (Hardcover)
"Demon's in the Spring" is f-ing phenomenal. I was already in love with Joe Meno's "The Boy Detective Fails" and its absolute wonderfulness (a classic of his and a must read of all his works) but while reading "Demon's in the Spring," I was really humbled to see Mr. Meno take it up a notch from his already amazingly imaginative and unique writing.Each short story is well developed and has the same amount of heart (if not more) as his longer works (which significantly influenced how much pleasure I took in reading them). The stories are rich and light at the same time, and even more importantly, each is vastly different, showing just how far Meno has stretched his imagination and ours as the reader. One story is even about a miniature elephant! Meno continues to perfect his ability to break and mend my heart in the same instance. A few of the stories left me wiping tears from my face before I could continue to the next one. I cannot express enough how much appreciation, admiration, and love I have for Joe Meno's writing. His intensely direct and spacious style may not be for everyone, but if your heart needs touched and your imagination needs hugged in a new way, don't hesitate to read this book.
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Joe Meno is amazing, Sep 19 2008
By Ryan Jude - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Demons in the Spring (Hardcover)
Middle class suburban magic surealism. Characters are interesting without being overdrawn. They are familiar yet none are stereotypes.
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Wonderful stories, all very different, Dec 26 2008
By Thomas Frobisher - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Demons in the Spring (Hardcover)
Got to go with Ryan Jude on this one. Already a big fan of Meno, but was not at all let down by this book.
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