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The History of Vegas

por Jodi Angel

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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. HTML: *A collection of dark short fiction about neglected and troubled teenagers, named a San Francisco Chronicle* Best Book of the Year.** Trouble. From the first page of each of the edgy and unrelentingly intense stories in this debut collection, the teenaged characters are headed for big trouble. The adult world has mostly failed them, and they find themselves entering into highly charged situations where they make their own rules, with misguided understanding of the consequences. The stories burn hot and fast, providing searing insights into their world of sex, drugs, drinking, violence, and accidental grace, played out in small, tough towns. Written with raw directness and understanding that makes these stories impossible to forget, The History of Vegas announces an exciting, fresh talent. "Bright, brooding, iconic, and dark." �??Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead "In essence, Angel is writing a kind of abbreviated naturalism, the kind of fiction that writers like Raymond Carver and Larry Brown honed to perfection. Angel excels at it as well, whether the setting is the urban jungle of Las Vegas, the dirt roads of the lonely, expansive West or even the seemingly placid suburbs." �??San Francisco Chronicle Book Review… (más)

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Oh man. I could not wait for this one to be over. I don't know what it was, but I could not stand this book. It's written well enough to hold your attention, but just does not deliver. One short miserable story that goes nowhere after another.

I was reading Life Is Hot In Cracktown the same time I read this one,and that book is just, as if not more, depressing. The difference was that Cracktown has a story with characters and a plot; this book just has ton of short miserable stories and they just don't go seem to go anywhere. (

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melkor1917 | Jul 10, 2023 |

This is the second collection I've read of Angel's. She's a really solid writer, and I like the gritty things she writes about and the pretty convincing ways she writes about them. There was nothing in the collection that really knocked my socks utterly off, but the stories were all pretty strong. I'll keep reading Angel. (

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dllh | Jan 6, 2021 |

Jodi Angel's first collection of stories, The History of Vegas, is full of grit, surprise, and exceptional talent. That's all great, but there's a problem with writing such shocking stories in such a skillful manner: the reader begins to expect it.

The History of Vegas begins with one bang, then another. These are stories that pull you in and then punch you in the gut. At first, an unexpected reader may open their eyes wide with shock, go back and reread a passage or an entire page or two. These are fabulous stories that are original and memorable.

Seriously, the only problem with this collection, assuming you don't have extremely conservative leanings in which everything about this collection is a problem, the only problem is that awe becomes an expectation after two or three stories. You may not know what will happen, but you know that something forceful is coming, and this blunts the impact significantly. Also, some readers may not care for the abrupt ending many of these stories have, but I found that trait to be important to the jolt of the ending.

I look forward to reading Angel's second collection, but I think I may give it a little time so that maybe my expectations lower a bit for the first couple stories. By that time, I'll be ready for another gut-punch. (

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chrisblocker | Nov 2, 2017 |

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Fiction. Literature. Short Stories. HTML:

A collection of dark short fiction about neglected and troubled teenagers, named a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year.
Trouble. From the first page of each of the edgy and unrelentingly intense stories in this debut collection, the teenaged characters are headed for big trouble. The adult world has mostly failed them, and they find themselves entering into highly charged situations where they make their own rules, with misguided understanding of the consequences. The stories burn hot and fast, providing searing insights into their world of sex, drugs, drinking, violence, and accidental grace, played out in small, tough towns. Written with raw directness and understanding that makes these stories impossible to forget, The History of Vegas announces an exciting, fresh talent.
"Bright, brooding, iconic, and dark." �??Anthony Swofford, New York Times bestselling author of Jarhead
"In essence, Angel is writing a kind of abbreviated naturalism, the kind of fiction that writers like Raymond Carver and Larry Brown honed to perfection. Angel excels at it as well, whether the setting is the urban jungle of Las Vegas, the dirt roads of the lonely, expansive West or even the seemingly placid suburbs." �??San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

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