Title: Ouch
Review: I loveThe Homecoming (Wonderfully Illustrated Short Pieces), and when I stumbled upon From the Dust Returned at the library, I was delighted to take home a novel-length version of one of my favorite short stories to savor. Alas... Although the cover says "A Novel," the pages say "A cobbled-together collection of short stories that loosely go together... but not always."There are noticeably distinct changes in writing style throughout the "novel," and only couple of the stories share the dark, atmospheric writing that makes The Homecoming so incredible. This was a real disappointment. Also, while many novels of yesteryear were published as serials, they didn't take 50 years to come together. Age withered rather than mellowed this work.I don't think I would have had the same reaction if the cover had said "An Anthology" or "A Collection" rather than "A Novel"... Maybe I would have, but it feels like bait & switch all the same.
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