Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It, (Paperback)

from RandyMetcalfe

The eleven stories collected here all have something to do with relationships, often frustrated, sometimes unrequited or worse, unwanted. Meloy moves easily between male and female protagonists, sometimes employing child narrators. Although most of the stories appear to be set in Montana, except ...

from frisbeesage

Both Ways Is the Only Way I Want It is a collection of short stories mostly featuring men and women living in the fringes of the American West. They inhabit those small, western towns were people still have one foot in older, more simple ways and one foot edging into the fast-paced, more technolo...

from freddlerabbit

This book was curiously titillating - a collection of stories (I believe about protagonists who want it "both ways") about separate characters - and I kept feeling like the tale ended just when the story was getting really compelling! Meloy does a marvellous job of building up context and backgro...

from EricKibler

This is an excellent collection of short stories. I found them very accessible, and gobbled this book down in short order.Meloy's milieu, like Raymond Carver's, is the American Northwest, although there are some detours into other locales. The stories run the gamut from funny to poignant to downr...

from seidchen

An able and convincing storyteller, Maile Meloy has written some strong realist narratives. As a collection, though, these stories settle into an alarmingly similar point of view: a sort of stupor of longing and grasping. I usually think a story told well can carry almost any subject matter, and ...