Yolk

by Josip Novakovich

Book Overview

Short stories from Josip Novakovich. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555972292
• ISBN13: 9781555972295
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 205 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

funny as hell

Anybody who has a poor assessment of this book must not have a funny bone in their body. Many of these stories, I have to say, for me, don't really pan out to be what I expect from "traditional" stories. They read almost like stand-up routines. Still, I was laughing so hard that I quickly set aside these kinds of expectations and just had fun with it. These are highly inventive, quirky stories, and, somehow, they still manage to be seeringly honest about such serious topics as politics and religion. In his later books, Novakovich does handle the structual "story" aspect (which he definitely knows how to do) a little better, while keeping the humor intact. But you won't necessarily find all these jokes in his later stuff, either. If you want, read his later stuff first, then come back to this one. But if Novakovich's humor, imagination, and insight happen to strike you half as much as they strike me, I wouldn't pass this one up.