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title: "Sudden Fiction: American Short Stories"
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# Sudden Fiction: American Short Stories

**Brand:** robert shapardjames thomas
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Sudden Fiction: American Short Stories

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## Customer Reviews

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    Bottled Lightning
  

*by R***S on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 22, 2003*

~It's a great book to have. You can read it on the subway and chew on a few stories in one transit, or just scan the beginnings and look for what catches your eye, or you can curl up on a rainy day and devour the whole book. It's a great way to meet many writers you've heard of but haven't yet read. The only problem is the editor had this in mind so some writers, I presume, were selected because of who they were not what they wrote. Some pieces are vignettes more than "Sudden Fiction." Conversely, some stories are just marvelous: have no wasted words, tightly woven plots, and compelling characters.  These stories are a marvel to see and a must for anyone interested in fiction. It's incredible how much depth is possible in such a short space. If you've ever tried to write this book will impress you with how much the right word is essential. Mark Twain once said "the difference between the right word and almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Here is lightning-or is it the bug?-bottled up.

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    four stars for most of the tales, two for the editors
  

*by D***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 14, 2014*

humans have been telling tales for > two millennia; and in the latest two centuries, Americans have been busy in the genre.  this © 1986 collection echoes 70 prose tidbits by 70 American authors -- a coverage designedly thin and narrow.  Still, I found a dozen outstanding; and I am confident you will find at least a (perhaps different) dozen outstanding also.  ¶ although many of these tales are American only in the most trivial sense, some are identifiably American.  most are located in America but not tellingly so.  all are modern.  do these editors suppose that very brief fiction did not become gripping until a few decades ago?  in 1962 Popular Library published `The World's Shortest Stories' @ $.40 -- a marvelous collection, including mostly tales from long ago and far away.  -- and oh btw, must fiction exclude poetry?

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    Excellent collection of short stories
  

*by N***E on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 11, 2017*

Some of these short stories are so off the wall; I love them! I've never been a short-story person and this book (purchased for a college class) has me hooked. My class only required a small handful of stories but I've read most of them, on my own, by now. It was fun to see writers that I recognized writing in alternate styles from some of their well-known work. I think The Hit Man might be my favorite.

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