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Naked Pueblo
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (2000-08-21)
ISBN: 0747546150
EAN: 9780747546153
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback: 224 pages
Edition: New Ed
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Customer Reviews
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The Southwest as you've Never Seen It
Rating  (5)
Date: 2001-10-19
This collection of 12 stories offers a darkly humorous and unsentimental view of the new southwest and its marginalized inhabitants. They are all linked in some way to Tucson, AZ and reading them will give you a new perspective on what many think of a bland, desert state. The stories are at their strongest when Poirier sticks to the follies and f***ups of boys and young men. Many of the stories have a ring of authenticity that suggests the author lived the moment described-or something very close to it indeed. "Ska Boy, 1986" for example, could not have been written by anyone who had not been a part of that youth subculture at that time. Poirier manages to balance improbable situations with realistic, and wild characters with wildly realistic emotions and desires. This is a top-notch collection, and it fired me up to read his novel Goats.
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The Southwest as you've Never Seen It
Rating (5)
Date: 2001-10-18
This collection of 12 stories offers a darkly humorous and unsentimental view of the new southwest and its marginalized inhabitants. They are all linked in some way to Tucson, AZ and reading them will give you a new perspective on what many think of a bland, desert state. The stories are at their strongest when Poirier sticks to the follies and [mistakes] of boys and young men. Many of the stories have a ring of authenticity that suggests the author lived the moment described-or something very close to it indeed. "Ska Boy, 1986" for example, could not have been written by anyone who had not been a part of that youth subculture at that time. Poirier manages to balance improbable situations with realistic, and wild characters with wildly realistic emotions and desires. This is a top-notch collection, and it fired me up to read his novel Goats.
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Anyone tired of aristofiction? Then try Mark Poirier.
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-10-30
It's refreshing to read a young writer who isn't obsessed with "aristocratic" big city life and big city concerns like proper martini attire, top dollar health clubs, cocaine-sniffing debutantes, and plastic surgery consultations. I can't think of the last writer Esquire mag singled out as "one to watch" who hasn't been obsessed by the world of wealthy Manhattanites and the playpen they call New York. But Mark Poirier isn't like that. In NAKED PUEBLO, he brings us a different world out in the American West, and yet he does so in such a fine literary style that it rivals even the best of aristofiction. How Esquire figured out he's "one to watch" we'll never know. But maybe that magazine isn't done after all.
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Evocative writing style excites and intrigues...
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-10-28
Mark Poirier has such mastery over his characters; vividly portrayed, the imagery is so accessible that one reader's perception will be that of another. Raw characters and witty dialogue break the barriers of good taste--and these stories are all the better for it.
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The best American short story writer of the last five years
Rating (5)
Date: 1999-10-26
After living in Swindon for 15 years, I returned to the states and came upon Mark Poirier's work (he's known as Mark Jude Poirier here) and felt like I'd come across the best combination of UK humor with American characters and settings. See if you agree.
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