RIVER TEETH
Stories and Writings
Publishers Weekly: “These vignettes are first-person, succinct, and uniformly powerful... Marvelous nuggets mined from a complex, absurd and magical life.”
Booklist: “Simultaneously lyrical and vernacular prose, vivid description, hilarious action, spirited movement and poignant observation... Duncan deftly characterizes modern life and American culture—our fears, desires and drives—revealing in these exquisite vignettes and tales all that shapes a life.”
The Oregonian: “The mingling of fiction and nonfiction raises interesting questions about the line between autobiography and fiction, and how the writer gives shape to both his life and his art by using the same core material. Duncan’s core material is... the almost miraculous capacity of his family feeling to absorb, endure and make sense of any grotesquery, any challenge, the torrent of life's hidden currents... This is a moving, powerful book, filled with Duncan’s great virtues as a writer—his warmth and wild humor, his sparkling prose style, his deep humanity.”
