
Wanting Only to Be Heard
Reviewer Jack Driscoll
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Product Details
Publisher | University of Massachusetts Press |
Publish Date | April 25, 1995 |
Pages | 208 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780870239793 |
Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches | 1.0 pounds |
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Reviews
"The stories provide a privileged glimpse into the male heart confronted with loss. These are men grappling with a world whose cruelties have cornered them. And ultimately Jack Driscoll's poetic language gives them a stature that makes their struggle meaningful, tragic, and universal."--New York Times Book Review
"Driscoll's stories are elegant, chilly, and understated. His people, of course, want more than to be heard; they want to be with someone, they want their lives to mean something, they want to be warm."--(London) Times Literary Supplement
"I once believed, with good reason, that after reading Norman Maclean's A River Runs Through It, I'd never again read anything so poignant and moving about the hard lives of hard men, or anything that equaled its quiet power, its clear, classic, soft-spoken prose, as bracing as spring water. But now I've read Wanting Only to Be Heard, and now I think differently. I read Jack Driscoll saying to myself, Yes! that's how it's done, that's how you tell a story, that's how you do it so we'll never forget these people and their voices and this place."--Bob Shacochis
"Driscoll's frozen northern landscape is at once chilling and intoxicating, at once frighteningly sterile and alarmingly seductive. His characters are brave and honest and heartbreakingly bent on survival against all physical and emotional odds. This book is an act of courage and generosity from a wildly talented man."--Pam Houston
"The Roman poet Horace once wrote, 'The art is to hide the art, ' and Driscoll seamlessly manages to take the reader within his tales so that we are part of peoples' lives and not just fictional characters' actions."--Shenandoah
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