A review by bruscato
Cries for Help, Various: Stories by Padgett Powell
4.0
I received this as a Goodreads Giveaway *
Cries for Help, Various reads like a fever dream that I'm convinced if read aloud is positive alchemy. I strongly suspect Padgett Powell is functioning on another level of reality. And I can only imagine while reading these (very short) stories a shift has taken place in the universe making sense of the impossible and leaving the mundane trampled in its wake. Powell's writing style is the literary equivalent of a Vulcan mind meld.
I can see a lot of the stories here being fleshed into novels in their own right but love the disorienting knowledge that this snippet, this snapshot in alternate reality is all I get. It's definitely something to chew on and savor.
Cries for Help, Various reads like a fever dream that I'm convinced if read aloud is positive alchemy. I strongly suspect Padgett Powell is functioning on another level of reality. And I can only imagine while reading these (very short) stories a shift has taken place in the universe making sense of the impossible and leaving the mundane trampled in its wake. Powell's writing style is the literary equivalent of a Vulcan mind meld.
I can see a lot of the stories here being fleshed into novels in their own right but love the disorienting knowledge that this snippet, this snapshot in alternate reality is all I get. It's definitely something to chew on and savor.