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21 de abr. de 2009 · Martin is, firstly, an exquisite wordsmith; his sentences are perfectly constructed and enjoyable to read even as if they were meaningless in the larger context of the story. Even the title — “Cruel Shoes” — is an intriguing turn of phrase. The shoes themselves aren’t really cruel — yet that’s the best description of them.
A collection of short stories so short that they would be called “flash fiction” today, Cruel Shoes highlights Martin’s absurdist sense of humor. The title story involves a shoe store clerk offering every pair of shoes in the store to a client and then saying “you’ve tried everything except for the cruel shoes,” which turn out to have non-Euclidean twists and turns and the client ...
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When it comes to humor, it's the printed page that separates the men—like Woody Allen—from the boys. . . like Steve Martin. Without the Martin stand-up persona to project them, these 50 or so mini-pieces mostly fall flat—and the lack of variety is numbing. Stories, poems, anecdotes, jokes; whatever the form, nearly all of these bits are based on a single comic notion: deadpan, mildly ...
27 de mar. de 2005 · I just discovered that most of the text of Steve Martin’s out-of-print 1979 book Cruel Shoes is posted on The Compleat Steve, a Steve Martin fansite. I’ve owned a tattered hardcover of this book since the mid-’80s, when, much like these guys , I was an adolescent Steve Martin fanatic.
8 de nov. de 2009 · We're all big fans of the book 'Cruel Shoes' a collection of offbeat, mostly humorous essays and short stories by Steve Martin, first published in 1977. So m...
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