Saturday, January 7, 2012

Shoe and Marriage, by Kelly Link

Shoe and Marriage is part of Kelly Link's Stranger Things Happen collection, and was nominated for a World Fantasy Award in 2001.  In order to convey a large message, a short story has to be poetic, or cryptic, or both.  I would say that Shoe and Marriage is on the cryptic side.  The shoe is a metaphor for all things we care deeply about, mostly children.  Not to make you think it is sweet--it's mostly pretty dark.  I think her fans would find it worth reading, I myself will have to consider whether I did or not.  2 stars, in the end.
at
Labels: ,

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Semiosis, by Sue Burke

I think I liked this better than most reviewers. What I got out of it was an exploration of how human colonists would communicate and share ...

  • The Ziggurat, by Gene Wolfe
    There are some interesting theories out there on what Gene Wolfe's "The Ziggurat" short story means .  Indeed, Wolfe is heavil...
  • Ginungagap, by Michael Swanwick
    Michael Swanwick is an inspired author, and has some brilliant work out there. He has a series of very short stories called The Sleep of Re...
  • Slow Tuesday Night, by R. A. Lafferty
    The introduction to Slow Tuesday Night is by Gardner Dozios, the great editor, and he tells us that "only those stories that were the ...