Later, at the Bar : A Novel in Stories (Paperback)

from chicklit

I liked the book well enough, but given all the praise, I expected something pretty great. It wasn't. For me, only two of the characters were compelling and they even seemed pretty standard. The linkages between the stories is handled well, and it's refreshing to leave the bar and get a broader s...

from debnance

I've been reading on this book for seven or eight months. It's a collection of short stories that all center on life in a bar, with the same cast of characters. Very well written. I'd bet money the author went through a creative writing program somewhere and there's nothing wrong with that, but w...

from msf59

“But it was daytime. The sun was out and the rules were different. He dropped his eyes and they passed each other without speaking, the way people who drink at the same place often do once they step out of the bar and into the world.” “Across the street she could see the mourners staggering out o...

from davidabrams

Writer Walks Into a Bar.... The literature of alcohol is a tricky field for new writers to enter. There's the constant risk of slipping into lazy clichés as well-worn as the overlapping water rings on a bar (see what I mean?). Then, too, so many masters of fiction have already gone before and bla...

from davidabrams

Writer Walks Into a Bar.... The literature of alcohol is a tricky field for new writers to enter. There's the constant risk of slipping into lazy clichés as well-worn as the overlapping water rings on a bar (see what I mean?). Then, too, so many masters of fiction have already gone before and bla...