High Cotton: Selected Stories of Joe R. Lansdale | 
 enlarge | Author: Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher: Golden Gryphon Press, U.S.
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Sales Rank: 475779
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 267
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Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.8 x 1
ISBN: 0965590127
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780965590129
ASIN: 0965590127
Publication Date: November 1, 2000
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Master short story teller... for starters November 18, 2001
J. Bilby (Kingston, New Hampshire United States)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
This has to be the best way to start off discovering JOE R. LANSDALE. He took off with
the short story, got noticed and the rest is
for those who seek out his multi-dimensional,
all over the place texas inspired tall tales,
but this is just the starting place, wait to you read
his novels. This is the best way to take down
joe at first, small gulps, so you can come up easily for air, then go right back down. My favorites in this excellent, high quality book
are "The Pit", "Night they missed the horror show"
"My dead dog bobby", "Incident on and off a mountain road", take in these for starters, then
proceed with caution, you're in for a bumpy ride!
This guy is just getting a taste of long overdue
sucess!
Champion Joe does it again! June 19, 2001
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
HIGH COTTON contains some of Joe Lansdale`s best short fiction, and if that`s not enough of a recomendation for you then I don`t know what is. Stand out stories include the classics, "Steppin out, Summer `69", quite possibly the funniest thing I`ve ever read; the John Wyndham inspired "Tight Little Stitches in a Dead Man`s Back"; Joe`s signature theme, if you like, "The Night They Missed the Horror Show"; and the cunning alternate world reality of "Trains Not Taken". All the stories here are told with Joe`s trademark Texan dialogue and wit, as unique to Joe as the mean steets of Edinburgh are to Ian Rankin. The stories range from standard issue horror, as in "Not From Detroit", to surreal short-shorts that you won`t find in any other writer`s collections - "My Dead Dog Bobby", for instance. Bound in neat wraps, printed on high quality paper, and with a full-colour dust-wrapper HIGH COTTON is a handsome volume that will grace any collector`s bookshelf. Seriously recommended, folks!
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