Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction: The Bigness of the World (Series #70) (Hardcover)

from emma_mc

This was a slog to get through. SO many of the characters were the same - teachers, from Minnesota or the Midwest, traveling abroad, having relationship issues. It was too much sameness! I read all of the stories because I'm a chronic book finisher, but I wouldn't recommend this collection.

from Hebephrene

Interesting that the collection opens with one of the weakest stories. We are in a world of Mid Westerners who happen to be lesbians but that does nothing to mitigate the repression and constraint. The power of the work accumulates. It is not evident if you read a story or two. It is only through...

from AStoriedSoul

The paperback release of Lori Ostlund's bestselling collection, The Bigness of the World, presents a series of short stories that observe the intricacies of the human condition through a range of perspectives and topics including loss, love, failure and defeat, and the ever-unfair and mysterious ...

from SheTreadsSoftly

The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund is a highly recommended award winning collection of eleven short stories originally published in 2009. This review copy is for the eBook and the paperback release. As a debut collection, The Bigness of the World, received the Flannery O'Connor Award for Sh...

from viviennestrauss

I loved this collection, all the stories were very well written. I especially appreciated the author's ability to tell the story from the child's perspective. Amusing at times as well-- I loved how many of the characters were very rigid in their adherence to proper grammar. All the characters wer...