RECOMMENDED READ: COAL BLACK: STORIES BY CHRIS MCGINLEY
Blue Collar Noir, Chris McGinley, Down and Out Books., Paul D. Brazill, Punk Noir Magazine, Recommended Reads, Short Stories, Shotgun Honey
Chris McGinley‘s Coal Black is a brilliantly powerful collection of short stories set in the hills of east Kentucky. This is a world of poverty, deperation, drug addiction, and crime. These are stories of good people and bad people living on the razor’s edge. The stories and the characters in Coal Black overlap, intertwine and interconnect to create a whole that is as just as good as its parts. The tales are social realist with a strain of magic realism and every single story is great. These are artfully crafted stories to savour. Coal Black is simply one of the best short story collections that I’ve read, and I look forward to rereading it. Very highly recommended.
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