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9781567921670
"[S]uch bountiful inventiveness can be a mixed blessing, as Joyce Carol Oates or Phyllis Reynolds Naylor can probably testify: Naive readers may dismiss the resulting work as facile, shallow or the product of automatic writing rather than painstaking craft. In truth, Aiken's short stories occasionally suffer from rather wan endings, but her limpid style, flair for dialect, subdued (or slapstick) humor and, most of all, her comforting voice make up for this weakness. If weakness it is.Aiken, Joan is the author of 'Shadows & Moonshine Stories', published 2001 under ISBN 9781567921670 and ISBN 1567921671.
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