L.A. Times Books Editor, David L. Ulin, looks favorably upon Roy Kesey's All Over in the Sunday Books Review page! Read it all here, and in the meantime, the beginning from Mr. Ulin:
"Roy Kesey writes with the soul of a ventriloquist. In the 19 stories that make up his second book, "All Over" (Dzanc Books: 146 pp., $13.95 paper), I hear echoes of J.G. Ballard, César Aira, Jim Crace, George Saunders -- perhaps not intentional echoes but echoes anyway.
I'm not suggesting that Kesey doesn't have his own voice, just that he's operating out of a tradition: Let's call it "post-postmodernism," writing that is ironic and apocalyptic and aware of itself as a construction all at once. This is not naturalism, in other words, but something more elusive, fiction in which language carries the force of metaphor.
That's an ambitious mandate for a slender volume of short stories, but for the most part, Kesey pulls it off."
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