The Devil In The Cows Sippican Cottage 9781463673499 Books
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A collection of flash fiction from Sippican Cottage. Sippican Cottage offers 37 sly vignettes, with all the life you can handle in every paragraph. His method choose a random picture from the Library of Congress and then infuse it with all the warmth and pathos his imagination and heart can muster. Sippican Cottage lives in western Maine, where he makes too much furniture to be called a writer, writes too much to be mistaken for a businessman, and spells too well to be mistaken for an intellectual. Read him daily at SippicanCottage.blogspot.com
The Devil In The Cows Sippican Cottage 9781463673499 Books
This is not hyperbole. The book, quiet, modest, sly, insidious, packs a wallop. It'll blindside you and punch a laugh out of you in a public place, and only sometimes because it's funny, which it often is. Sometimes it's just startling -- so apt and so unexpected.It took me a long time to finish reading it and write about it, not so much because I'm busy (though I am), but because each one- to three-page story, and there are 37 of them, feels like a whole novel. A character falls into you like a stone into a well and the reverberations go on and on. A glimpse of, a momentary overhearing of a life somehow implies the whole life. How does he do that? It's the compression of poetry with the witness of fiction.
The stories are responses to archival photographs from the Library of Congress. Their "narrators" are mostly farm people, laborers and craftspeople, who worked with their hands on things that had real substance; that is, they are voices of a nearly gone world and they transmit the wisdom obtained by wrestling with things that are tangible and heavy and unhurried, that have their own textures and dangers, that require respect and give back an inalienable self-respect, no matter what the world thinks.
I had to put "narrator" in quotes because Sippican doesn't channel these people's "voices," exactly, although the stories are written in the first person and they sound natural, they have particularity, they would make great dramatic monologues in a one-actor show. (Dorothea Lange as Anna Deavere Smith?) But what they say is not exactly what these people would SAY, even to themselves; it's what their being would say if given a voice.
If you read this book, see if you don't end up wanting to give it to certain friends, the ones you know who know what these people are talking about. My only regret is that some of the people I most want to give this book to are dead.
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The Devil In The Cows Sippican Cottage 9781463673499 Books Reviews
Challenging and esoteric, The Devil's in the Cows is not your mama's Flash Fiction. Prompted by a series of photos from the Library of Congress, Sippican Cottage has crafted a collection of sudden fiction that demands our attention.
Blogs are, by nature, an ephemeral thing - and most are written solely to be of interest for the moment. Fortunately, one of the best writers I know of (who is a blogger/furniture maker living in Maine) has collected the "flash fictions" from his blog into a wonderful collection of short short stories, permanently bound into a real, paper book. Each is inspired by a photo pulled at random from the archives of the Library of Congress. The stories are affecting, charming, thought-provoking and interesting. They seemed pulled from a collective idea of America when it was - free of twee irony, a time before mass consumerism turned us into something we wish we weren't, when someone's worth was measured by what they did, not what they pontificated about. I've read Sippican's blog for years; and I always find it a pleasure. (If you haven't discovered it yet, do so now. The flash fictions appear spasmodically - there's a lot to discover). Take a chance and buy this book by a writer you've probably never heard of - but will be glad you've found.
I had never heard of flash fiction before. Curiously, it feels like a fictional blog on times and places lost in the space time continuum.
I've been a fan of the Sippican Cottage blog and the associated blogs for a while now and I'm glad that finally, FINALLY, the quality writing, novel interpretations and flat out great story telling is available in a book.
Trust me - I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on TV, but this is one of them there Tour de Forces you hear about.
It's worth the money and even more important, it's worth the time to read. Highly recommended.
Well done sir. I have had the advantage of following the Author's blog for a number of years so I expected the book to be good. That being said, good, doesn't cover it.
Each story is preceded by a picture from the Library of Congress which the author uses to inspire a story. Each story, 37 in all, is less than 1,000 words long (flash fiction is the fancy word for it). What amazes me is how much 'story' Sippican packs into each story. Not one word is wasted, and each packs a punch. Sippican has taken an obscure genre and given it mainstream status. Get this book and you won't be sorry.
Full review (rant really)at my blog [...]
Basically....what Gerard said. Such wonderful and evocative stories that truly stay in mind. I galloped through the first half of the book then made myself stop and just ration myself for the balance. I've been a faithful follower of the Sippican Cottage blog for quite a while and find these short, but riveting, stories to be amongst the best reading I've had (and I've read a lot). Highly recommended and I wish I could give it more stars! [This is the first review I've done here and felt I needed to spread the word on this dandy little book.]
The Devil's in the Cows has, on every damn page, the stamp of the real; the sure turn of the hand of a craftsman who can get beneath the appearance of things captured in a photograph's momentary slice of memory and show you how the never-ending story of the world unfolds on the inside of a man by looking at his outside situation. And not just how it "looked" but how it was to be alive and real in that moment. It's a higher kind of truth and that's why we have to, to spare ourselves the pain and shock of recognition, call it "fiction."
Joseph Conrad, who knew a bit about dressing the truth in the more acceptable costumes of fiction, knew what his job was "My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel -- it is, before all, to make you see. That -- and no more, and it is everything." Nostromo (Oxford World's Classics)
That's the natural craft that Sippican musters and masters on every page of this book. Every page. There is, and this is rare in books, not a single page in the entire book that does not return an image to your mind that is vivid, striking, and lingers unfolding in your mind like a paper Chinese flower blooms in a glass of clear water.
This is not hyperbole. The book, quiet, modest, sly, insidious, packs a wallop. It'll blindside you and punch a laugh out of you in a public place, and only sometimes because it's funny, which it often is. Sometimes it's just startling -- so apt and so unexpected.
It took me a long time to finish reading it and write about it, not so much because I'm busy (though I am), but because each one- to three-page story, and there are 37 of them, feels like a whole novel. A character falls into you like a stone into a well and the reverberations go on and on. A glimpse of, a momentary overhearing of a life somehow implies the whole life. How does he do that? It's the compression of poetry with the witness of fiction.
The stories are responses to archival photographs from the Library of Congress. Their "narrators" are mostly farm people, laborers and craftspeople, who worked with their hands on things that had real substance; that is, they are voices of a nearly gone world and they transmit the wisdom obtained by wrestling with things that are tangible and heavy and unhurried, that have their own textures and dangers, that require respect and give back an inalienable self-respect, no matter what the world thinks.
I had to put "narrator" in quotes because Sippican doesn't channel these people's "voices," exactly, although the stories are written in the first person and they sound natural, they have particularity, they would make great dramatic monologues in a one-actor show. (Dorothea Lange as Anna Deavere Smith?) But what they say is not exactly what these people would SAY, even to themselves; it's what their being would say if given a voice.
If you read this book, see if you don't end up wanting to give it to certain friends, the ones you know who know what these people are talking about. My only regret is that some of the people I most want to give this book to are dead.
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