Five Fingers Make A FistEvoking Exercises In Style by Raymond Queneau, where the same story is retold 99 times, Alexander Laurence has taken storytelling as the subject of his book. Five Fingers Make A Fist juxtaposes extreme realism, science, poetry and theater in 28 stories told through various points of view, from a baby narrator in "My Birth" to an old lady waiting to die in "The Ballad of Nariyama." Many of the stories take place in San Francisco in the 1990s, yet they

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Barbara Kingsolver

247 full color photos

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Its transparency is baffling

and vixens live in a seedy yet swinging

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or maybe something more fragile and organic like the skin of an onion

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When looking at this imagery it is interesting to see who is winning in each artist's battle

mixing sensual and humorous fiction with grave political events of the period superbly illustrated by Loustal