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3 reviews
Lee K. Abbott

White Pine Press, 1990

Lee K Abbott's stories are humbling in their honesty
I know of no other writer who brings readers into the story's world as quickly, as deftly, as intimately as Lee K Abbott. In Dreams of Distant Lives, Abbott, using mostly first person narratives, shows us the pain in the trials that are our everyday lives, shows us who and what we are one to another--fathers to sons, husbands to wives, us to ourselves--by taking us into the lives of his ...

Living after Midnight

1 review
Lee K. Abbott

Putnam Adult, 1991

A New Energy
It is rare in contemporary fiction to find a truly unique voice. There are more writers and publishers of fiction today than anyone can keep up with, and considering that much of it sounds exactly the same, why should one even try? Well, now there's a reason. Lee K. Abbott writes with a new energy, a sustained vitality, and his work carries an importance most cookie-cut contemporary work ...

All Things, All At Once: New and Selected Stories

8 reviews
Lee K. Abbott

W. W. Norton, 2007

Best Story Collection I've Read in Years
I already own most of Abbott's story collections, so I was slow to pick up this New and Selected collection. Now that I have it, however, I'm more pleased than ever. The new stories in here are some of the best Abbott has written. "One of Star Wars, One of Doom" is amazing. And the selected stories really are the best from his previous collections (unlike other selected stories or poems ...

Men of rough persuasion.(Fiction)(Short Story): An article from: Daedalus
Lee K. Abbott

American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2003

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LOVE IS THE CROOKED THING

1 review
LEE K. ABBOTT

Ohio State University Press, 1996

Lee Abbott is a master of the American short story.
Abbott's collection of stories never drags; each piece is a gem, each begins as the action starts, and goes on to reveal the most telling facts of character in artful ways. Perhaps because of his abundant humor, Abbot has been called a "maximalist," but that is not fair, really--because that implies a man of messy technique, someone who throws words on the page willy-nilly. He is as careful with ...

Wet Places At Noon

7 reviews
Lee K. Abbott

University Of Iowa Press, 1997

Humor in a unique world, as in "A Creature Out of Palestine"
Some of these stories are not in Abbott's newest collection, one of which is the humorous and unforgettable "A Creature Out of Palestine." The first two pages introduce us to the world Abbott has created, characters speaking with his strength and natural humor, the landscape and characters as unique as Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, but in the desert of the American southwest. When I first read ...

The Putt at the End of the World

18 reviews
Lee K. Abbott, Dave Barry, ...

Grand Central Publishing, 2001

Bagger Vance Meets Monty Python
It is said that a camel is a horse designed by a committee. Since a camel is very efficient doing what camels are intended to do, then the remark must mean that a camel is a very funny looking horse. Well, in The Putt at the End of the World, a committee of nine individually popular writers has turned out a very funny golf story. The Putt at the End of the World is apparently the brainchild ...

Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball

1 review

Bison Books, 2007

The Diamond is Forever
Among the wonderful stories in this collection of notables is a gem from Tim Stone, a rookie writer. His tale of baseball as the bond between generations rings true across time and and culture. Pithy and poignant, this story stands out as a pre-season reminder of what the game means to fans of all ages, off season and off the field. Shame only, that in this case, it is lore of the Fenway ...

One of Star Wars, One of Doom

2 reviews
Lee K. Abbott

New American Press, 2007

A Prophetic Story Readers Will Still Be Reading Five Hundred Years From Now
"One of Star Wars, One of Doom" is an omniscient account of a Columbine-like scenario, but in the New Mexican Yoknapatawpha where all of Lee K. Abbott's stories are set. We track a high school teacher and our shooters through the fateful day, and by story's end we see that the choices that lead to their ends are driven by remarkably similar motivations. The strategy of tightly controlled ...