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Summary: From The Boston Book Review
Review: "....Greer's stories are self-contained and well-crafted. Furthermore, it's the cagey nature of Greer's fiction that makes it so refreshing and provocative."
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Summary: From Publisher's Weekly
Review: "Greer reveals sensitive, unpredictable characters in direct but subtle prose....Many of these stories project that same kind of effortlessness--suggesting that more strong writing from Greer will follow."
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Summary: From the San Francisco Chronicle
Review: "Greer's stories are full of the kind of gentle, distracted people who pause in crowds to savor a memory or nurse a regret....His stories are humane and hopeful in ways that are too rare."
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Summary: LYRICAL, LUXURIOUS....a wonder!
Review: Andrew Sean Greer is a wonder. These stories made me hold my breath. They have the lyrical beauty of poems, and yet their characters are very real people...with compelling stories to tell. True literary fiction is rare these days. I applaud Andrew Sean Greer for showing me that you can write a story that is as beautiful as poetry. Perhaps Greer is a writer's writer, but I hope that every reader will allow themselves the chance to be put under his spell. After reading How it Was for Me, I looked at my whole world a little differently, and was reminded of the fragility of the human heart.
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Summary: It Was Very Good For Me
Review: Andy Greer's first book, "How It Was For Me," should be re-titled "Best American Short Stories 1996-2000." I've read his intensely fascinating stories in Esquire, Ploughshares, and Story, and was rewarded by being able to read them again in this collection, in addition to the new stories, each of which is an achievement, especially "The Art of Eating" and the marvelous "Life is Over There." Greer's subject is the unpredictable tenuousness and strength of affection between lovers, families, and strangers. These are important stories, and you should read them.
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Summary: magnanimous
Review: Applause to the author for climbing into the back of this reader's mind. The Kirkus review was overly harsh. This is a writer to listen to now and one you'll long hear over and over.
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Summary: A strong début collection
Review: Greer is a fine writer whose stories show considerable promise. He really understands people and their foibles and portrays them with insight and affection. Some of the stories can seem a bit wispy--too much mental floating and too little basic plot--but then he wows you with sentences like these: "She realized her own sad hope that Alex would arrange things, as he always had. That her life would appear behind a door for her like a surprise party." And: "Perhaps he moved, in that moment, from the half of life when you build things to the half when they fall apart."
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Summary: A strong début collection
Review: Greer is a fine writer whose stories show considerable promise. He really understands people and their foibles and portrays them with insight and affection. Some of the stories can seem a bit wispy--too much mental floating and too little basic plot--but then he wows you with sentences like these: "She realized her own sad hope that Alex would arrange things, as he always had. That her life would appear behind a door for her like a surprise party." And: "Perhaps he moved, in that moment, from the half of life when you build things to the half when they fall apart."
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Summary: BUY IT
Review: Heartbreakingly good, especially the last story. Wish they had a sample chapter here so you could read it. I was in tears by the end.
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Summary: A mixed bag...
Review: I have to agree with Kirkus on this one. Many of the stories just went on and on and I lost interest midway through them. There were a couple of bright spots -- "Come Live with Me and Be My Love" being one of them -- but I constantly found myself flipping a few pages ahead to get past the dry spots.
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