![]() ![]() It's much more concerned with why than how, with possibility than plausibility, with meaning than logistics. This book won't be for everyone if you like books in which Things Happen, this is probably not for you. ![]() Hargreaves, as he did in The Shield Road, gets a lot of mileage out of not a lot of words, and his thematic approach to storytelling fits right into Elsewhere. Hutchison brings her trademark evocative prose (which Hargreaves openly admits to attempting to imitate here, at least a bit) and her penchant for making the concrete abstract and the abstract concrete. They remark upon how the tales change in the telling, and in so doing - because the tales are all we, the readers, have - they change Everwhere itself. They remember rusted skin and curled hair and statues. People tell tales to make sense of situations, to bring a familiar context or to redefine through new understanding. Everwhere is a world of stories, both in the sense that it exists in the form of short tales like the ones you can read in this book and in that the world itself is shaped and defined by stories. ![]()
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