Tom Davis (4) (1970–)
Autore di Red Letters: Living a Faith That Bleeds
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Sull'Autore
Tom Davis writes about life in the American South in short stories, articles, and poems. Davis, a resident of Fayetteville, N.C., uses personal experience, imagination, and humor to tell stories about Southern people and events. Davis combines true elements, such as the names of actual persons and mostra altro events that really took place, with descriptions of imaginary people and places. Davis's books include What Would You Like on Your Mashed Potatoes?, The Long and the Short, Pickberry Pig, and The Patrol Order. Davis's works are also included in A Loving Voice and A Loving Voice II, anthologies of read-aloud short stories. Davis also publishes extensively in newspapers and journals, such as The Carolina Runner, Poet's Sanctuary, and Special Warfare, a professional military journal published by the Special Warfare Center. He has won numerous awards from Byline, a national magazine for writers. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno
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Opere di Tom Davis
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1970
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Colorado, USA
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 339
- Popolarità
- #70,285
- Voto
- 3.7
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 60
- Lingue
- 2
The author succeeds in transporting his readers to a bleak landscape unfamiliar to most. American readers "know" that daily life in Africa is a struggle, but the events depicted here give stark detail to abstract knowledge. As agenda fiction goes, the purpose here is one that can't be argued with or, hopefully, shrugged away.
As a novel, though, the book's craft didn't satisfy me. For the first 80-something pages, the reader is forced to swim through a soup of similes. Every single description is a comparison. This improves later in the book, but similes are still overused, often two or more in a paragraph. The characters are not individuals with quirks but rather mouthpieces for the author's message. The majority of the dialogue reads like a nonfiction essay on the horrors of African village life. Character conversations usually consist of sharing information or planning what to do next.
The themes/content and potential of the book rate four stars, but the prose, dialogue, and characterization earn two. I'm glad I read it, though. I learned a lot, especially from the afterword interview with the author. This book provides American readers with a needed education.… (altro)