Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black: And Other Stories, (Hardcover)

from anneofia

Most of the dozen or so stories in this volume were disappointing to me. The title story seemed pointless; possibly because I didn't understand many of the allusions tossed in as asides to the main story. I continued to have the same problem with some of the other stories, even though I did like ...

from anneofia

Most of the dozen or so stories in this volume were disappointing to me. The title story seemed pointless; possibly because I didn't understand many of the allusions tossed in as asides to the main story. I continued to have the same problem with some of the other stories, even though I did like ...

from RoseCityReader

Beethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black, a collection of short stories by South African Nobel Prize winner Nadine Gordimer, has its hits and misses. The misses include a story about a tapeworm from the tapeworm's perspective; a reminiscence of a cockroach trapped in a typewriter that doesn't rise above...

from YogiABB

Not a whole lot happens in this book.