The Complete Collection of People, Places & Things

By John Dermot Woods

Fiction. "John Woods' THE COMPLETE COLLECTION brings the small-town America of Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio into conversation with Italo Calvino's fake travelogue, Invisible Cities, and that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935402463
• ISBN13: 9781935402466
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Blazevox Books
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Haunting, funny, lovely

Creepy and beautiful. Surprising moments of incredible tenderness, shot through with humor, just as it should be. Woods's visual artwork enhances his written work by complicating it; in some cases nearly upending it. I love the effect of the illustrations on the stories, and vice versa. In some ways, this is a collection of ghost stories, but the ghosts are painfully human. An uncommonly good, unsettling book--and also a great display piece.

Fantastic, magical stories.

This book is basically a look into the lives of a small community, but Woods presents that look through fun-house style glasses. It's experimental and magical while being undeniably familiar. The book goes to the wackiest imaginable places without ever letting go of this anchor of recognizable truth. Anyway, i thought it was great. And there are super-kick pictures throughout.