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Summary: Wonderful
Review: Honest, daring, funny, and smart, perfectly calibrated, perfectly observed. No short story writer today is better than Eisenberg at conveying the shifting nuances of self-doubt, self-consciousness, and self-deception.
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Summary: Our Greatest Short Story Writer
Review: I can think of no contemporary writer as underappreciated and brilliant as Deborah Eisenberg. Eisenberg plumbs emotional depths few writers dare even approach and yet never at the expense of the heart. I highly reccomend all of her work to anyone who appreciates excellent, brave writing.
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Summary: Closer to the heart of life's mysteries
Review: There is something delicious and maddening about D.E's stories. Delicious because her prose is so cool and lucid, her take on emotional subtext in the interaction between people so accute. Maddening because she brings you so close to people's souls. There is something infuriating about knowing people like that and then having them vanish. In a way it's an argument for novels, though satiation always makes youa little ill. I think D.E. is a brilliant realist. I've just surfed around the Amazon reader reviews for the first time. It's amazing, but worrisom, all those voices, because so many seem enthralled by fantasy. Eisenberg is about the real. That she is able to elucidate often painful situations with such beauty and wit is our good fortune.
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