Bradfield, Scott - Mark R. Kelly (review date September 1989)
Mark R. Kelly (review date September 1989)
SOURCE: Kelly, Mark R. Review of The Secret Life of Houses, by Scott Bradfield. Locus 23 (September 1989): 31.
[In the following review of The Secret Life of Houses, Kelly praises Bradfield for effectively setting his stories in modern California.]
Scott Bradfield's collection The Secret Life of Houses contains such already well-received pieces as “Unmistakeably the Finest” and “The Dream of the Wolf,” most of which have appeared only in Britain, and three stories original to the collection, which itself is a British publication. This is somewhat ironic since most of the stories concern Southern California, with a knowing but detached perception. (Perhaps they seem more fantastic to the British than to American editors and publishers.) “The Darling” recounts the career of Dolores Starr, a woman abused as a girl who calmly murders the men in her life when they...
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