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Close Range by Annie Proulx (Sara’s book 6, 2010)

This is the fourth in my series of five reviews of short fiction collections. Close Range is Annie Proulx’s first collection of Wyoming Stories — spare tales of lives lived and lost in a harsh and lonely land.

Close Range
E. Annie ProulxFourth Estate 1999, Paperback, 320 pages, £12.00

One of the themes of these reviews is what I believe [...]

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami (Sara’s book 3, 2010)

This review of Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman, Haruki Murakami’s latest collection of short stories, is the first in a series of five reviews of short fiction collections.

Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Philip Gabriel (Translator) Alfred A. Knopf 2006, Hardcover, 333 pages, £15.94

I love the short story form, and I hold good short stories and those who write them in higher [...]