- Paperback: 368 pages
- Publisher: Scholarly Book Services Inc; New edition edition (Jun 27 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0807125679
- ISBN-13: 978-0807125670
- Product Dimensions: 21.5 x 14.1 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 431 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #2,150,022 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4.0 out of 5 stars
A fine collection,
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This review is from: The Hills Beyond (Paperback)
This is a collection of short stories from the author of "Look Homeward, Angel". I think that I took more enjoyment from this book because I've read Wolfe's other novels - therefore the background to the stories and Wolfe's writing style were already familiar to me.Many of the characters in the stories are from families that appear in Wolfe's other works. But the real pleasure came from the fact that the stories are set in the rural South - I think that Wolfe's writing is particularly strong when he draws upon his Southern background. And, unlike parts of his major novels, Wolfe's writing style seems to be more under control in these stories, less prone to self-indulgence.
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5.0 out of 5 stars (2 customer reviews) 18 of 18 people found the following review helpful
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Far and Away,
By Daryl Robbins - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Hills Beyond (Paperback)
This collection of stories is far and away the best sampling of his true literary mastery. I have always enjoyed Southern writers (Faulkner,Capote,..), but Wolfe touches a particular vein of the satirical social landscape of the South that is unmatched. His work, I believe, is less about the South than Faulkner's, but Wolfe still has that southern glow of tragedy but with a simple beauty. Though some may find his novels tedious and long-winded, it is difficult to not like this work. Just be patient and let the words come to you. The thing I like most about his short stories is that they often leave you with a feeling of lying in bed on a summer's night listening to the train pass through town or maybe a lone dog barking in the distance, hollow... but thinking that you could live forever.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
corralled by form, finally,
By A Customer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Hills Beyond (Paperback)
This is a collection of short-stories. For us who may be heratics in our beloved Southern Literature when it concerns Thomas Wolfe, we contend that he is a very verbose, messy messy author. His first editor had to cut and shape a large manuscript into three seperate novels (I believe that I'm correct in this), of which Look Homeward Angel was the first. (Apparently he wrote them on top of a refridgerator: a tall man.)And that book goes on and on and on--like the bunny commercial. He totally ignores any kind of sembulance of form. That is his problem, he does not brible his passion properly, Look H-- is a good book--but it could have been great--or atleast greater, depending on your view point.Hemingway said that he was good until he began writing about other places than his home. I have to agree with that. Now. This book, however, is his best crafted fiction. That simple. Something about the demanding, concise form of the short story works him over well. The first time that I read it I thought--that's it! The Southern author I've been looking for. But, unfortunately, I became all worked up for Look H-- and after reading that it all fizzled. One wonders two things: 1. what if he had lived longer?, he seems to have just become the craftsman that was always demanded for his ferver; and 2. what if he had written Look Homeward Angel, after he had true command of his skills. This is a great book. In my opinion his best. Read it. |
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