Nymph
by Francesca Lia Block
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Author: Francesca Lia BlockEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2003-05
ISBN: 1885865430
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Circlet Pr
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Book Review: Lyrical YA Author on a Somewhat Unnecessary Foray
Summary: 5 Stars
I picked up Block's first adult book out of curiosity to see how she'd handle the form. I enjoy her lyricism and her quirkiness in her YA fiction. I found this to be of a piece with her larger library. In fact, if you spiced up her YA novels with some more explicit vocabulary, you could probably neatly drop a few segments of them in here without anyone being the wiser. Block is not inexperienced in writing about sex. The only difference here is the quantity and the language.
These stories are interesting little character sketches--and creating interesting little characters is what Block does best. They're not particularly erotic, in my opinion, primarily because the main characters are--in typical Block form--pretty darned sad. Explicit sex aside, they're really more about romance, about loneliness and the need to connect, than they are about sensuality and sex. Of course, that's not necessarily a bad thing. Block does her schtick very well, and while it's more challenging for her to work her magic in the short short format she's set herself here, she manages to pull it off very cleverly, in part through the interlocking story schematic, which does allow her to squeeze a little extra character development into these tiny spaces. Some of the stories are better than others as some of the characters are better than others, but the collection as a whole makes a good entry in the Block library. The adult Block library. Personally, though, I hope this is the last of this kind of thing Block feels the need to write. Emotionally, there's nothing here that you can't get in her YA fiction, and her alienated characters I think have something so important to share with many of her young readers that it would be a shame to deprive them of it for the sake of a little explicit language and more graphically detailed sex.
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