Fantasy Book Critic: “The Drowned Life” by Jeffrey Ford (Reviewed by Jacques Barcia)

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“The Drowned Life” by Jeffrey Ford (Reviewed by Jacques Barcia)

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The Drowned Life is the newest collection by Jeffrey Ford , one of the most acclaimed writers in the field, especially recognized for his short stories. There are sixteen stories in The Drowned Life , distributed over 290 pages . Some of them are pure fantasy, while others have no speculative elements of note. Most of them though, could be put in the magic realism field, or stories that are grounded in reality but not quite so. In other words, some unexplainable things do happen in the character’s lives, but those same things are not as terrible or shocking as the events of daily life.

This is more evident in stories like “ Present From the Past ”, “ What’s Sure to Come ”, “ The Scribble Mind ” and “ The Golden Dragon ”, pieces in which magic is depicted subtly—for instance, a ...

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