Charity

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Summary: Richard is a writer's writer
Review: I enjoyed some of the stories here, but Mark Richard's writing can be extremely tedious. Furthermore, his stories are sometimes too bizarre for my tastes. I love Flannery O'Connor's quirky writing, but this surpasses the oddities of her stories by large margin. These stories are truly poetic, and probably great for lit classes, but too difficult for the normal guy like me. I love "Strays", however, and will continue to work with Richard's stories until I appreciate them more. These stories are very cool, too cool for me. Richard is probably a cool dude.

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Summary: A Great American Writer
Review: Mark Richard's work may stand alongside the work of Larry Brown and Barry Hannah as great contemporary Southern literature, but CHARITY proves that Richard should stand next to Styron and Faulkner as one of this century's great American writers. This is an amazing collection that bridges a remarkable collections of emotions, attitudes, worlds...Read it.

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Summary: he is cool
Review: these stories are beautiful and sparse and amazing.
and mark richard is very, very COOL. i was lucky enough to be a student of his years ago and yeah. can i write a review of him? he's AMAZING. that little gimp is as good as this book.