Dark Optimism: Selected Short Tales, 1989-1998

By Alex Stein

This book is well worth the read and re-read that the amazingly layered poetry/prose inspires. Dark Optimism also has short shorts - "flash fiction", which the author is a master of. You will enjoy... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1893722007
• ISBN13: 9781893722002
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: BentLight Media
• Length: 177 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Hits you where you're not looking

Mr. Stein shatters the notion that there aren't any real and direct writers left, who use their eccentricity to push you around. Not only does he startle the mind, tickle the funny bone and pull out a hair or two, he also, when you least expect it, pulls down his pants to show you what's there. Although I think Dark Optimism, as a title, misses the beat, the book - with its flash pieces of rythmnic prose and exquisite tenderness - is something for those days that you want to look out the window, and see what's outside in full. I look forward to his next work...

Captivating Sucinct Prose

This book is well worth the read and re-read that the amazingly layered poetry/prose inspires. Dark Optimism also has short shorts - "flash fiction", which the author is a master of. You will enjoy this book even more the second time through. The small bits it is composed of hang like jewels of dew on a spider web and intice you to laugh and cry and awake in recognition of the spiritual in the mundane. The only similiar book I have read in the past 20 years that reaches this level of excellence is translated from the Japanese and called Palm of the Hand Stories. Dark Optimism is equally compelling.