angelayoung's review
5.0
This is a jewelbox of a book. The stories are perfectly-cut gems, the writer a jewel-maker. Each story is one, two, three or - at the most - three-and-a-half pages long, but inside each short piece is a whole world.
I couldn't help wondering how Tony Williams managed to come up with so many different names for his characters and so many different worlds and situations. But he does. And he does it mesmerisingly. If you are as time-short as so many of us are, you can lose yourself in one, or two or three or even three-and-a-half worlds on the bus on the way to work.
My favourite - at least my favourite today - is a story called Why the Renaissance began in Italy. Read it and be amazed at what can be found inside an olive, ham, mayonnaise and frisee sandwich (besides olives, ham, mayonnaise and frisee). It'll only take you a minute (or two) but what you discover will - I promise - live on in your imagination for months.
I couldn't help wondering how Tony Williams managed to come up with so many different names for his characters and so many different worlds and situations. But he does. And he does it mesmerisingly. If you are as time-short as so many of us are, you can lose yourself in one, or two or three or even three-and-a-half worlds on the bus on the way to work.
My favourite - at least my favourite today - is a story called Why the Renaissance began in Italy. Read it and be amazed at what can be found inside an olive, ham, mayonnaise and frisee sandwich (besides olives, ham, mayonnaise and frisee). It'll only take you a minute (or two) but what you discover will - I promise - live on in your imagination for months.
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