http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/noel-cowards-short-stories/ Janice Harayda Reviews Fiction, Nonfiction and Poetry for Adults and Children Thu, 16 May 2013 19:28:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/noel-cowards-short-stories/#comment-3 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 17:13:48 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/noel-cowards-short-stories/#comment-3 Thanks for asute comment. No, the stories aren’t closer to essays than fiction. That’s part of their charm; in some ways, they’re very old-fashioned with, for example, endings that may have a gentle twist. And a couple are long enough that approach novella-length. To the degree that the quote from “A Richer Dust” sounds like a rant, it’s atypical. I used it because I wanted to suggest the relevance of some of Coward’s themes to the 21st-century. My background as a newspaper critic (and specifically my 11 years at The Plain Dealer) may be showing here …

]]> http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/noel-cowards-short-stories/#comment-2 Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:36:30 +0000 http://oneminutebookreviews.wordpress.com/2006/10/29/noel-cowards-short-stories/#comment-2 Hi. The longish quote from “A Richer Dust” sounds more like a rant than a story detail. Are these stories more essay than fiction?

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