Hearing from Wayne and Other Stories

By Bill Franzen

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0394555015
• ISBN13: 9780394555010
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 127 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.

Customer Reviews

More please

I adore these stories and re-read this book frequently. I'm with the others: More More!

Love this book. More please

I love this book of stories. There is a wonderful dry midwestern humor to them (He's from Minneapolis) A masterful natural style of writing. Even the oddest character are shown with humor and without disrespect. Wonderful, wry and human. I just Googled him and it appears he's doing book reviews for Salon.com. Come on, Bill - more stories please.

What happened to Bill?

I agree with the previous review. Bill has a delightful comic voice and a deceptively easy prose style. I thought this book would naturally lead to more by this talented author. Forget Waldo, where's Bill?

Satirical Gem

Charming, goofy, brilliant first-person short stories. Two are among the best stories I've ever read. Bill Franzen - whatever became of him?! - captured the voices of ordinary eccentric Americans - or eccentric ordinary Americans. The one about the church organist is so cool and satisfying and hilarious and poignant that it's worth reading every few years just to remember how perfectly it is wrought. I only wish we could hear from Bill Franzen again.