Stolen Stories

Paperback | 1 February 1985 | Edition Number 2

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Short stories and essays concern a man who discovers that he is made of wax, dogs who are able to talk, and like topics.

Industry Reviews

Katz has been employing metafictional techniques as expertly - and for as long - as the best innovative "fictioneers"; this new collection of pieces shows him off to good effect. The title story - a fictionalized account of a visit to novelist Russell Banks in Jamaica - betrays none of its very thick seams, is engagingly exotic, and comes closest to being a conventional story. But Katz is better served by some of the woollier items: "The Perfect Life" and "Two Seaside Yarns" - two absurdist accounts in which every next event perversely changes direction and frustrates expectation; and "Smooth" - a mordant and funny political notion, narrated by (we kid you not) a tube of salve. Less strong are a pair of macabre pieces - "Friendship" and "Mongolian Whisky" - that are little more than jazzed-up Roald Dahl. And a few Beckettian monologues called "Essays" reveal Katz's weakness for the cheap gag. But all these pieces do testify to a restlessness and striving that clearly identify literary originality. (Kirkus Reviews)

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