A review by jenni8fer
Pure Hollywood: And Other Stories by Christine Schutt

3.0

3.5 starts. As Ottessa Moshfegh said in her review, 'Come for the art of her exquisitely weird writing and stay for the human drama.' Dark and unsettling slice of life stories written in spare prose. Interior lives are explored at individuals most fragile times. Women feel burdened by others and want to escape while men are indifferent. There is a feeling of danger, disconnection, and loss bubbling just below the surface.

I loved the stories and they have now put me in the mood to go and read Ottessa Moshfegh's own 'exquisitely weird writing' in her book of short stories Homesick for Another World.