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According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits." Hitting the Charts, a nineteen story Best-Of compilation, offers stories as free from constraint as a Monk solo, and as disquieting and resonant as a southern Baptist preacher at a big-tent revival. Dancing is not forbidden.

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"The theatrical quality of Rooke's stories, combined with his merciless attention to form, presents the reader with a corrective to plot-driven, stale prose."—Danforth Review "He is the high-priest of maximalist panache, the standard-bearer for a hyper-rhetoric that is at once strange, eccentric, and beautiful."—Douglas Glover "He can break your heart in half all at once, like a kindly assassin, or chop it to bits with a dozen swift, sure strokes. He's a writer with a black belt in portraying the small daily tragedies that break bones and leave no visible wounds. It's when he's funny, which he often is, that he's most dangerous."—Russel Banks

Hitting the Charts: Selected Stories

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      Publisher Biblioasis
      Published 5 October 2006
      ISBN-13 9781897231180
      978-1897231180
      ISBN-10 1897231180

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits." Hitting the Charts, a nineteen story Best-Of compilation, offers stories as free from constraint as a Monk solo, and as disquieting and resonant as a southern Baptist preacher at a big-tent revival. Dancing is not forbidden.

      Trade Review
      "The theatrical quality of Rooke's stories, combined with his merciless attention to form, presents the reader with a corrective to plot-driven, stale prose."—Danforth Review "He is the high-priest of maximalist panache, the standard-bearer for a hyper-rhetoric that is at once strange, eccentric, and beautiful."—Douglas Glover "He can break your heart in half all at once, like a kindly assassin, or chop it to bits with a dozen swift, sure strokes. He's a writer with a black belt in portraying the small daily tragedies that break bones and leave no visible wounds. It's when he's funny, which he often is, that he's most dangerous."—Russel Banks

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