Orientamento

Update: 12/12/13: This book is so goddamn brilliant that I'm reading it again. I can't find either of my paper copies, which means I lost my signed copy :(, so I just downloaded it... It's good to spend money on amazing books. As I was buying this book for one of my grad school classes, I didn't exp Leggi tutto

If George Saunders, Stuart Dybak and Franz Kafka combined to make a short story love baby progidy, this creature might write stories as beautiful as Daniel Orozco. His talents are revealed in the variety of tones and voices in this collection - from the hilarious to the page-turning-ripping-yarn to

Its brilliant, I haven´t read anything like this before!

3.5 i will give him. though that is probably blasphemy to his side. i mean it could be 5 stars, easily, but like i said to others, this is no Heathcock and HIS first collection Volt: Stories or mike young's first collection Look! Look! Feathers or lorrie moore Like Life or the incredible 1st collection Leggi tutto

I felt this thrilling sense as I read Daniel Orozco’s debut story story collection, Orientation, that Orozco was a rule-breaker, risk-taker, and rebel craftsman. Orozco’s nine stories read respectively as: A new employee’s office orientation told in monologue; four portraits of insatiable hunger and Leggi tutto

I can certainly see the talent and value in this author, and I think that I probably would have liked these stories better if I'd read them individually--meaning, if I'd happened upon one in Story or Mid-American Review, I probably would have thought it clever and liked it. All together, though, the Leggi tutto

⭐⭐⭐⭐½ Orozco è del '57. Ha insegnato scrittura creativa all'università e oggi è in pensione. I suoi racconti sono apparsi in importanti antologie come The best american short stories e in magazine come Harper's e McSweeney's. Orientation è il suo unico libro. Non so a te, ma a me 'sta cosa fa impazzire Leggi tutto

What an awesome read!! These 9 stories were so interesting, and the details that Orozco decided to add were unlike anything I've read before. The pictures he paints with his words were both beautiful and haunting, shedding a light on stories that feel so distant, yet reflect many of our daily lives. Leggi tutto