Title: New King of short fiction?
Product review: This guy is way better than his father has been lately. This book shows he knows his way around a short story better than King did in "Everything's Eventual" (a book I thought was more than decent). What I find really surprising is Hill's insight into the mind and motivations of the common man, considering he must have grown up never knowing need or deprivation. This type of down-to-earth, prosaic realism has been King's forte for decades and I daresay Hill gives him a run for his money. For fiction, especially genre fiction, enjoyment is inevitably proportionate to the measure that one can suspend disbelief. While Joe Hill's stories often veer toward the exceedingly fantastic, they are carefully constructed to be literary Golden Gate Bridges, the other side of which you always want to behold.
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