We've seen three full reviews to date and they're all great. We've already posted a bit about Matt Bell's great review at his blog. Since then, David Abrams reviewed the collection at January Magazine (and re-posted at places like Library Thing and ePinions), and the new The Believer has Justin Taylor's review of the collection which you can read in full at their website.
Some bits and pieces:
Matt Bell
"Roy Kesey is a fiction powerhouse, a writer whose talents cross great divides of subject matter, style, and tone. All Over puts aside Kesey's most traditional stories in favor of his more experimental ones, a choice which further accentuates how far Kesey is advancing the art of fiction when he's at his very best. "
and
"All Over is exactly what a short story debut should be: daring, powerful, funny, packed with stories that showcase a wide range of the writer's talent.. Roy Kesey's stories are full of strange events and characters that have the potential to both frighten and amaze, and his prose is so tight that it grips the reader firmly in its promise of not a single wasted word, not a single extraneous moment. Once landed in Kesey's world, it is easy to lose yourself in these stories, to forget how unusual it is for a writer to be able to write well using this many styles, to believe that short fiction is always this good."
David Abrams
"They couldn't have picked a better winner than All Over for their first horse out of the starting gate. In these 19 stories, Kesey takes the reader on a tour of post-modern fiction that is at once bizarre and completely familiar."
and
"Many of the stories in All Over are, in fact, no bigger than a teaspoon. Kesey knows how to get in and out of a story quickly, leaving us standing by the side of the road, gasping, and wondering just what the hell just barreled past us."
Justin Taylor
"Line by line, this book ranks among the best post-postmodern fiction that I’ve read in years."
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