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Plain Folk Tales
16 Jul 06
True Tales of American Life - ed. Paul Auster - Faber and Faber, 2001
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This is such an obvious idea for a book that it’s amazing that no-one has done it before. The author Paul Auster invited listeners to a radio programme to send in short, true stories - no more than a few hundred words - on any subject they chose. The result is a fascinating insight into the psyche of Middle America, and goes to show that “ordinary people” have stories to tell and can tell them just as interestingly as professional writers.
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True Tales of American Life - ed. Paul Auster - Faber and Faber, 2001
* * * *
This is such an obvious idea for a book that it’s amazing that no-one has done it before. The author Paul Auster invited listeners to a radio programme to send in short, true stories - no more than a few hundred words - on any subject they chose. The result is a fascinating insight into the psyche of Middle America, and goes to show that “ordinary people” have stories to tell and can tell them just as interestingly as professional writers.
( Read more... )