Love is the Crooked Thing: Stories

By Lee K. Abbott

Book Overview

Human love in a variety of quirky manifestations is the subject of these 11 short stories. Abbott, whose first collection, The Heart Never Fits Its Wanting, won the St. Lawrence Award, dazzles with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 091269730X
• ISBN13: 9780912697307
• Release Date: January 1986
• Publisher: Alonquin Books of Chapel Hill
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Lee Abbott is a master of the American short story.

Abbott's collection of stories never drags; each piece is a gem, each begins as the action starts, and goes on to reveal the most telling facts of character in artful ways. Perhaps because of his abundant humor, Abbot has been called a "maximalist," but that is not fair, really--because that implies a man of messy technique, someone who throws words on the page willy-nilly. He is as careful with his words as is any good writer. He just has style.