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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780975590379 ISBN: 0975590375 Label: Wheatland Press Manufacturer: Wheatland Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 256 Publication Date: November 01, 2005 Publisher: Wheatland Press Studio: Wheatland Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Award-winning author Bruce Holland Rogers lives and writes in Eugene, Oregon, the tie-dye capital of the world. His previous short fiction collections include Flaming Arrows and Thirteen Ways to Water . In 2004, his story "Don Ysidro" won the World Fantasy Award for short fiction. Since January 2002, for five dollars a year, subscribers in sixty countries have been receiving short-short stories by Bruce Holland Rogers in their email boxes. The stories are an unpredictable mix of literary fiction, science fiction, fairy tales, mysteries, and work that is hard to classify. Many of the stories in The Keyhole Opera began as subscription stories and went on to be published in magazines and anthologies. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A True MasterBruce Holland Rogers is a true Master of the short-short story. Read and enjoy. Rating: - Brilliant!I am not one to post a review, but I must say this fellow's work is most addictive. It is thoughtful and quite brilliant! I find myself scratching my head and thinking about what I have read hours after I have finished reading. Rating: - Favorite GiftAs one of the original clients of Rogers' shortshort subscription service, I've given his stories to friends and colleagues many, many times over the years. So I was happy to see Keyhole Opera in print--it's much easier to wrap for birthdays and Christmas. With his stories collected here between two covers, Rogers' mastery of the short form becomes clear. He crosses genres and story structures with ease. And yet, whether contemporary fiction, fantasy, or fable, each piece provides ... Read More Rating: - Thoroughly entertaining mastery of an elusive formI will say, up front, that I am a huge fan of the author's prose. It steps gracefully between and among genres, defying the usual dreary and artificial cages of literary classifications. Fantasy? Yep, there's some of that. Horror? Now and then. So-called "literary" fiction? Yes, but not in the pretentious sense. Overall, I consider Bruce Holland Rogers a damned good writer, so good that his stories seem almost effortless. And yet he writes with a discipline that would shame a monk. The ... Read More Rating:  - Short in some ways, but not on elegance These are very brief stories, elegantly written, well-turned, but they tend towards the pretentious, the oracular and pseudo-profound. Not difficult to parody, thus: "Once there was a very clever writer who stared into a mirror and saw his other self. And his other self, his eyes glittering with reflected glory, said to him: 'your words have the simplicity of a sparkling stream and the depth of an eternal ocean. You need only say a few words and you can cast a magic spell of admiration over your besotted ... Read More 
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