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Masterworks and Other Stories | Simon Jacobs

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Fiction. From the author of Palaces, a new collection of short fiction about identity, undergrounds (symbolic and literal), art reenactment, and unexamined possibilities. MASTERWORKS will beguile, amuse, frustrate, frighten, and in the end, connect. It will live up to its name. "MASTERWORKS is an absolute weird original. It's a frantic, funny tumbling of culture into the abyss--or maybe just a catastrophic date in an Olive Garden. Either way, read it at your peril and pleasure."--Amber Sparks

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Masterworks and Other Stories | Simon Jacobs

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For the first four stories in this collection, Jacobs' writing is fast-paced, to-the-point, and vibrantly descriptive, and he didn't need a ton of extra words to create that effect. He packed so much creativity and forward motion into such a short space! I couldn't put the book down. Sadly, I struggled with the two longer stories that followed, and they make up 3/4 of the book. It was just hard to come down from the momentum of those first four.

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