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conversations.value: <div>Praise for <I>Pitiful Criminals</I><BR><BR>"From the consequences of his brother's schizophrenia to a pastor who suspects murder, these tales are told in a laconic voice that only amplifies their power. With black-and-white line drawings throughout; highly recommended for uncommon readers." &#151;<I>Library Journal</I><BR><BR>"[...] the book depicts these atrocious events with economy, precisely delivering mood and motive in the span of a page or two. Though sunny skies are a rarity here, the author has created a skillfully rendered and devilishly unorthodox set of meditations on the &#147;horrors people do.&#8221; &#151;<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR><BR>"&#133;Yet [the author] keeps on telling these stories that humanize horror without minimizing it, capturing the potential for pitiful transgressions in all of us. Entertaining as these tales are, they cut to the bone." &#151;<I>Vermont Weekly</I><BR><BR>"By turns evocatively understated and rapturously outrageous, <I>Pitiful Criminals</I> is a collision of memory and fiction that compassionately reminds us what makes us human, what makes us stupid, what makes us genuinely abhorrent, and why we are sometimes still worth loving nevertheless." &#151;John D'Agata, author of <I>About a Mountain</I> and <I>Lifespan of a Fact</I><BR><BR>Praise for the author<BR><BR>&#147;The line between fact and fiction is often blurred in the author's collection of short stories&#133;but one thing is clear: the author writes about people and places for which he has a wonderful sense of understanding and compassion.&#8221; &#151; <I>San Francisco Chronicle</I><BR><BR>&#147;[the author&#8217;s writing is invested] not with distance but with an unbearable intimacy. Everything matters, is what he means to tell us, and yet we can never understand what it all means.&#8221; &#151; David Ulin, <I>The Los Angeles Times</I><BR></div>
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conversations.value: With black-and-white line drawings throughout; highly recommended for uncommon readers." &#151;<I>Library Journal</I><BR><BR>"[...] the book depicts these atrocious events with economy, precisely delivering mood and motive in the span of a page or two. Though sunny skies are a rarity here, the author has created a skillfully rendered and devilishly unorthodox set of meditations on the &#147;horrors people do.&#8221; &#151;<I>Publishers Weekly</I><BR><BR>"&#133;Yet [the author] keeps on telling these stories that humanize horror without minimizing it, capturing the potential for pitiful transgressions in all of us. Entertaining as these tales are, they cut to the bone." &#151;<I>Vermont Weekly</I><BR><BR>"By turns evocatively understated and rapturously outrageous, <I>Pitiful Criminals</I> is a collision of memory and fiction that compassionately reminds us what makes us human, what makes us stupid, what makes us genuinely abhorrent, and why we are sometimes still worth loving nevertheless." &#151;John D'Agata, author of <I>About a Mountain</I> and <I>Lifespan of a Fact</I><BR><BR>Praise for the author<BR><BR>&#147;The line between fact and fiction is often blurred in the author's collection of short stories&#133;but one thing is clear: the author writes about people and places for which he has a wonderful sense of understanding and compassion.&#8221; &#151; <I>San Francisco Chronicle</I><BR><BR>&#147;[the author&#8217;s writing is invested] not with distance but with an unbearable intimacy. Everything matters, is what he means to tell us, and yet we can never understand what it all means.&#8221; &#151; David Ulin, <I>The Los Angeles Times</I><BR></div>