Fiction. THE WEDDING is a book of short stories in which a crime-scene reporter is confronted by a talking dog, prisoners of war are forced to keep bees, mice ponder the ethics of their educational system, and a little girl passes herself off as a retired feather-weight boxer. "To read Hoffman's stories is to stumble through the looking glass into a gothic pastoral, a world of such beauty ans menace that you scarcely recognize it as your own. Like Ambrose Bierce and Shirly Jackson, Hoffman has rediscovered America. Welcome ...
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Fiction. THE WEDDING is a book of short stories in which a crime-scene reporter is confronted by a talking dog, prisoners of war are forced to keep bees, mice ponder the ethics of their educational system, and a little girl passes herself off as a retired feather-weight boxer. "To read Hoffman's stories is to stumble through the looking glass into a gothic pastoral, a world of such beauty ans menace that you scarcely recognize it as your own. Like Ambrose Bierce and Shirly Jackson, Hoffman has rediscovered America. Welcome Home" - Annia Ciezadlo.
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