A Bald Man With No Hair and Other Stories edition by John M Keller Literature Fiction eBooks
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"One of the most original and most brilliant of the new crop of young American fiction writers."
―Roll Magazine
"Offbeat short fiction, strongly recommended, humorous and fun."
―Midwest Book Review
"Last year when I found Keller’s book of stories I took it, maybe from the title, at first as a wilful gesture towards fashionable eccentricity. The minute I began reading, all that went away. I read the story 'The Death of Viktor Oleynikov,' and knew I was in the presence of not just a conscious stylist with a mind well stocked with image, likeness, mashal, but also a storyteller capable, as the best are, of overcoming ‘plot,’ and turning it into event—a journey not for characters alone but for the reader. I continue to read his stories, each one surprising, and wait for the novels the bio note promises." ―Robert Kelly
Poised amid a dazzling array of locales and predicaments, the characters in John M. Keller’s incisive, original stories become as real and as vivid as the places they inhabit. In “People Like Me Better Because I Like Guacamole,” published in Glimmer Train, a Russian grocery store employee with a “box full of discarded dreams” heads to glacial southern Chile to try his hand at advertising copy, just after a gypsy predicts he’ll die along the journey. In the title story, the life of a Mexican man with a rare sleep disorder changes irrevocably as he seeks to unravel the mystery of who shaved his head while he was sleeping. Keller captures the humor of the peculiar and the pedestrian, and his rich, searing descriptions and labyrinthine plots charge these twelve stories with an electric and unequivocally human pulse. This is the first collection of stories from a bold new voice.
A Bald Man With No Hair and Other Stories edition by John M Keller Literature Fiction eBooks
Here is a short story collection written by the guy who wrote Know Your Baker, which I only read half of. I was reading Know Your Baker during a time when I had just started getting into college and doing actual homework and stuff. It was coming down real fast, so I set it aside, I wasn't in the mood to read it because I was too stressed out to concentrate on it. Then it kind of got forgotten, but recently I had looked back and found it again. So here is the short story collection Keller had written and I have to say, my relationship with short story collections and anthologies is a little conflicted. Sometimes I love them, but most of the time I would read them and only liked a few stories. I'm not a professional reviewer or anything, I'm just some kid who likes to talk about what she read on her blog. I'm just trying to say that I don't really go into crazy details when talking about short stories.A lot of the short stories in this collection are quite unusual, well to me, and maybe a bit absurd. However, there is no magic present, very little, I think there was only one story that involved something out of the normal. Most of them consisted of the coincidences and oddities of life and people. Love and unrequited love, regret and the past tugging on your shoulders, the trust people give out willingly, only for it to be broken or regained after a series of events. A lot of these short stories seem to focus on a character's inner feelings about someone, the fantastical image that they create in their minds, only to be proven wrong. I think those stories would be the love stories he wrote, which happened to be my most favorite, because they deal with the feelings that are so hard to comprehend and grasp on. Kids that are my age, 18 or `19, they fall so hard for each other and create these manic pixie dream people, these perfect images that never existed in the first place . Then when everything falls apart, we slam our faces pretty hard.
John M. Keller has a type of prose that is poetic and lyrical in a way that I can't describe, because I just happen to be writing this post and I can't really think of a way to talk about it. I will say that there were stories where I had to reread certain sentences, because I loved the way they were written.
There are stories in here about people who lose things in life and then learn to live without it and move on. I think the concept to this whole story collection is maybe life itself, we have to learn to sometimes accept our isolation, the sometimes fabrications we make of ourselves and others. We have to accept the fact that we won't have the things we want, relationships will never go our way. Sometimes we need to see that we are what we are, temporary, weak, and ordinary, just like the world its self.
Originally from my blog: http://wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-bald-man-with-no-hair-and-other.html
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A Bald Man With No Hair and Other Stories edition by John M Keller Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I love all of the short stories, they have so much to bring... Excitement and creativity. I love the way John Keller writes. To me his books are very brilliant and motivating, because for some reason open yourself to think different and see your surrounding different, especially if they stories take place in NY and I live in NY as well.
Mr. Keller has an awareness of things. These short stories convey the quirks of characters and conditions that become more real than not.
This author shows potential, but these stories were horrible and I read every word because sometimes a book can come together in the last minute.
I love these short stories! I will admit that I keep a dictionary close by, but I love the colorful, highly detailed descriptive writing of Mr. Keller. He brings a fresh, insightful and sometimes brutally honest light to the daily lives of ordinary and not-so-ordinary people. His in-depth study of people and places and cultures has allowed him to bring to his writing humor and reality, and to write it all on a level far above what most writers are willing to reach. He really makes you think!
Good stories.
Once in awhile, a writer comes along who is not afraid to pursue the craft of writing. The playful use of language celebrates people of many cultures and many walks of life - in all their wonderful quirkiness – and makes these short stories a pleasure. The author takes you on a magic carpet ride that makes each of these stories a treasure to be read again and again.
I loved this collection. There's an array of characters and no two stories are the same, each portraying the dilemmas in life (the common ones we can all relate to, even with the presence of a ghost) and how we face them and overcome.
I have a special fondness for "People Like Me Better Because I Like Guacamole" - I knew I would enjoy this from the title alone - it's the signature of someone with personality and not just writing what they believe people want to read. As I'm making my travels around the world and through life, I think of all the crazy things we do and put up with in the pursuit of happiness through love, success and in finding whatever the hell our reason is for living, and I think of this story.
This is a collection I recommend to everyone for its unique storytelling and thoughtfulness from a great writer.
Here is a short story collection written by the guy who wrote Know Your Baker, which I only read half of. I was reading Know Your Baker during a time when I had just started getting into college and doing actual homework and stuff. It was coming down real fast, so I set it aside, I wasn't in the mood to read it because I was too stressed out to concentrate on it. Then it kind of got forgotten, but recently I had looked back and found it again. So here is the short story collection Keller had written and I have to say, my relationship with short story collections and anthologies is a little conflicted. Sometimes I love them, but most of the time I would read them and only liked a few stories. I'm not a professional reviewer or anything, I'm just some kid who likes to talk about what she read on her blog. I'm just trying to say that I don't really go into crazy details when talking about short stories.
A lot of the short stories in this collection are quite unusual, well to me, and maybe a bit absurd. However, there is no magic present, very little, I think there was only one story that involved something out of the normal. Most of them consisted of the coincidences and oddities of life and people. Love and unrequited love, regret and the past tugging on your shoulders, the trust people give out willingly, only for it to be broken or regained after a series of events. A lot of these short stories seem to focus on a character's inner feelings about someone, the fantastical image that they create in their minds, only to be proven wrong. I think those stories would be the love stories he wrote, which happened to be my most favorite, because they deal with the feelings that are so hard to comprehend and grasp on. Kids that are my age, 18 or `19, they fall so hard for each other and create these manic pixie dream people, these perfect images that never existed in the first place . Then when everything falls apart, we slam our faces pretty hard.
John M. Keller has a type of prose that is poetic and lyrical in a way that I can't describe, because I just happen to be writing this post and I can't really think of a way to talk about it. I will say that there were stories where I had to reread certain sentences, because I loved the way they were written.
There are stories in here about people who lose things in life and then learn to live without it and move on. I think the concept to this whole story collection is maybe life itself, we have to learn to sometimes accept our isolation, the sometimes fabrications we make of ourselves and others. We have to accept the fact that we won't have the things we want, relationships will never go our way. Sometimes we need to see that we are what we are, temporary, weak, and ordinary, just like the world its self.
Originally from my blog http//wordsnotesandfiction.blogspot.com/2014/06/a-bald-man-with-no-hair-and-other.html
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