Short Story Criticism | Bradfield, Scott - Kirkus Reviews (review date 15 February 1996)

Kirkus Reviews (review date 15 February 1996)

SOURCE: Review of Greetings from Earth, by Scott Bradfield. Kirkus Reviews 64 (15 February 1996): 260.

[In the following review of Greetings from Earth, the critic praises Bradfield's skillful prose and effective metaphors.]

[Greetings from Earth includes the] contents of Bradfield's 1990 collection, Dream of the Wolf, plus eight newer stories that continue to explore the fantasies and nightmares of lonely people who surrender to the lure of the unconscious and find themselves figuratively, and sometimes literally, transformed into the persons (or creatures) they've always feared they might actually be. The best pieces here (“Dream of the Wolf,” the fabulistic “The Monster,” and “The Parakeet and the Cat”) are risky, brazenly funny, over-the-top experiments, but Bradfield has the courage of his bizarre convictions, and his stories, outrageous in...

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