Kenny, Maurice - Publishers Weekly (review date 11 May 1990)
Publishers Weekly (review date 11 May 1990)
SOURCE: A review of Rain, and Other Fictions, in Publishers Weekly, Vol. 237, No. 19, May 11, 1990, p. 254.
[In the following review, the critic offers a negative assessment of Rain, and Other Fictions.]
Introducing his five stories and a one-act play [in Rain and Other Fictions], Kenny says that writing these kinds of narrative is "an exercise in ridding poetry of the statement of prose." Regrettably, this disappointing collection suggests that the exercise also strips his tales of poetry, the element that may have lifted them above the mediocre. In "And Leave The Driving to Us," a teenager rides a bus from Denver to San Jose, Calif., in search of the father he has never encountered. "Wet Moccasins" describes a man who refuses to take his wife hunting, returns empty-handed that evening, yet still has fresh rabbit—the one his wife shot in the backyard—for dinner; he eats...
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