Title: Pretentious and dull
Product review: It's funny everyone keeps talking about the hype I hadn't heard any of it--have I been living on a different planet or something?--but I did think this book had an attractive cover and I generally like short fiction so I gave it a go. Well it failed to engage me in any significant way. The narrators and characters are completely stock and the writing is self-conscious and pretentious and precious. For short fiction I recommend Lorrie Moore.
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