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Breathe a sigh of relief at the appearance of Stacey Richter, a hip, pop culture-obsessed fiction writer who actually knows what she's doing. A lot of "buzz" surrounds her first collection, My Date with Satan, and she was hailed by the Voice Literary Supplement as a "writer on the verge," but Richter is much more than the flavor of the month. Her prose bristles with humor and sadness, and her characters are true originals: an ex Teen Idol ("The Ocean"), a member of a Swedish heavy-metal band ("Goal 666"), a girl who desperately wants to be a Cat Lady ("Rats Eat Cats"). In this last story the 21-year-old narrator can't wait to get old in an apartment overtaken by felines:

I would constantly wear the same sweater, and maybe a synthetic wig. I'd have several litter boxes in my apartment, and this litter would be changed infrequently. I would receive either welfare or social security and spent most (if not all) of these public moneys on cat food.... Cat hair would be embedded in my sweater. It would almost appear that my sweater was made of cat hair.

Richter's characters are often pathetic or blind to themselves, but the author never condescends; writing solely in first person, she masterfully captures the private logic and language of her narrators. They are like messengers from an overlooked world, telling us stories we somehow need to know. In this way Richter reminds me of Eudora Welty, who also invested small, outcast characters with poetry, humor, grace. My Date with Satan establishes Richter as a talent to be reckoned with. She writes like a discoverer who has found the country she's been looking for. --Emily White -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

From Kirkus Reviews

Thirteen stories, most depicting the various confusions of the clever and the young. Richters characters are usually young, and the better part of these carry their youth as heavily as they would a family curse they had not quite succeeded in forgetting. Rootless and ostensibly amoral, they sometimes succeed in accidentally uncovering some meaning in their livesjust as the teenaged narrator of The Beauty Treatment finds herself unexpectedly reconciled to the venomous classmate who once slashed her across the face with a razor. Similarly, the very Goth narrator of Goal 666'' finds that the musical style of his Doom/Black Metal band undergoes a sudden and completely unexpected transformation (i.e., it becomes melodic and harmonious) once all of the members have fallen in love with the young woman who joins it. Prom Night is precisely that: the recollection of a dance attended by several very stoned teenagers, at least one of whom comes to suspect by the end of the evening that she may once have been young and innocent after all. Theres also a certain amount of art-world surrealism: Sallys Story describes the art career of a family dog who becomes famous for her sculptures and performance art, while Rats Eat Cats is the grant application (addressed to an arts committee) of an eccentric lady who lives alone with dozens of cats and makes sculptures (which she eventually sets aflame in performance work) out of their fur. The title story describes a typically modern take on the blind-date-from-hell routine, in which a San Francisco dominatrix acquires a slave through an Internet chat-room and eventually agrees to meet with him in personwith all the usual blind-date disappointments, and then some. A bit self-consciously arty, but a debut that's nonetheless saved from its own pretensions by a good ear for dialogue (Do you think were going to remember this, Bucky? We can get our picture taken, he said. Then it wont matter ) and a strong eye for character. -- Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verf�gbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.

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Dreadful, immature work of fiction 25. Mai 2000

Von Alan Scheer

Format:Taschenbuch

I first heard about this collection from a general review that Time magazine gave last summer on hot new contemporary writing. This writing is hot, as in hot and horrible. Most of the stories in this collection are pretencious and incoherent. This is not writing..it is typing..as someone famous once said! There are about three interesting stories in the collection but the rest were truely painful to read. I really didn't respect Ms. Richter as a writer, I thought she was more interested in trends then actually writing about deepfelt characters and emotions. The story about the Cat woman was interesting but indicative of the silly, pop- culture style of writing that Richter seems most interested in. I highly discourage anyone who is interested in serious short fiction from reading this book. The entire thing was just lazy writing.

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Great book! 7. Januar 2000

Von Julia Weber

I'm having a great time reading this book and thinking about the cast of characters I've started carrying around with me in my head as a result of these stories. It makes living in San Francisco and thinking about Arizona that much more fun. The stories are smart, funny and great to read aloud with friends. Great job and thank you, Stacey!

Finally! 5. Januar 2000

Von Ein Kunde

This is the book I've been waiting for. After reading some brilliant stories online (Nerve.com) I sought this out. It's funny, edgy writing with lots of stylistic panache and engaging action. Brava, Ms. Richter! I look forward to more!

Wonderful Warped Stories

An interesting look at a bizarre bunch of stories. I loved the dog and pool story. That could have happened at my house! The title story is good too. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 14. Dezember 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Too much sugar

Richter's work doesn't quite transcend its superficial pop culture setting, despite the attempts to be "literary" -- making the result a trendy Erma Bombeck rather than... Lesen Sie weiter...

Ver�ffentlicht am 9. Dezember 1999 von Lance Link

Unique, funny, engrossing and beautifully written

This collection of stories is one of the most beautifully written books I have read in a long time. Richter is a master of using words to evoke bright, clear images. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 6. November 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Refreshing, coy, sassy, unkempt

I just happened to have picked this up, and I just happened to have read the entire thing from cover to cover, and I just happened to have loved every minute of it. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 6. Oktober 1999 ver�ffentlicht

Stunning, original, poignant, lovely

I opened this book to the first page, thinking, 'I'll just read this one page...and maybe the beginning of the next... Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 22. September 1999 ver�ffentlicht

A.M Homes meets Bret Easton Ellis!

If you've ever thought there was something sinister about Hello Kitty, or wanted to hurl on a bourgeois "gangsta"--Richter is for you. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 8. September 1999 ver�ffentlicht

It's Jackie Suzann meets Tamara Janowitz on fast forward!

Stacey Richter's non-stop, in-your-face velocitous prose is an exhausting trip through the mind of the modern teenage shopaholic. Lesen Sie weiter...

Am 2. August 1999 ver�ffentlicht

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