Grab Bag (Little House on the Bowery)
by Derek McCormack
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Author: Derek McCormackEditor: Dennis Cooper
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06-01
ISBN: 1888451599
Number of pages: 200
Publisher: Akashic Books
Book Reviews of Grab Bag (Little House on the Bowery)
Book Review: Wish there were six stars. Or seven.
Summary: 5 Stars
That New York's Akashic Books has had the wisdom to publish these stories by Derek McCormack is a happy gift to US readers. He has been a national treasure of Canada for some years, and now he can be ours as well. The stories are sharply told, fables crafted to within an inch of their lives by a stylist so obsessive he reminds me of one of those crotchety perfectionists who builds the London Bridge out of toothpicks over sixty years. At least it's a bridge.At any rate, McCormack's writing is so precise it burns a hole right through you. These little sentences, pared down to stilettos that pierce the heart.
When I compile a short list of the writers whose work means most to me, he's usually on the list someplace. The stories in "Wish Book" are uniformly nasty but varied otherwise in tone, intention, mood. The older stories, from "Dark Rides," have I think a bit more melancholy and a different conception of formal experiment. Which you will prefer depends on your mood. As the French say, especially in Canada, "c'est bonnet blanc et blanc bonnet" (half a dozen of one, six of the other). I wish Amazon gave out more stars than 5. Let's see.
Summary of Grab Bag (Little House on the Bowery)
Grab Bag is comprised of two interrelated novels, Dark Rides and Wish Book, from one of Canada?s most important young writers. Both books are set in the same small rural city, in different eras (1950s, 1930s), each characterized by McCormack?s spare and elliptical prose.
Derek McCormack?s journalism has appeared in many publications across North America, including nest, Saturday Night, and the National Post. In 2001, he was nominated for a National Magazine Award for an article he wrote on Halloween. Wild Mouse, a book McCormack co-authored with poet Chris Chambers, was nominated for the 1999 Toronto Book Award. His new novella, The Haunted Hillbilly, will be published in Canada by ECW Press in Fall 2003.
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