Just finished your book! Like a great record album it is perfectly sequenced. I have read all of these multiple times and I kept reading wanting to know what was next. It feels like a conversation with you - intelligent, profound, funny, heartbreaking, enlightening.
I love the turn it takes after the first third when nostalgia through a modern lens gives way postmodern social critique, signaling a seismic shift from comforting sepia to brazen technicolor. Exhilarating and shocking and authentic. A fully realized being laying bare every influence Secrets of an Old Typewriter: Stories from a Smart and Sassy Small Town Girl
A child of the 1940's and '50's, Sexton aptly describes her autobiographical stories as 'sassy.' She visits various topics as a senior citizen looking back through her personal history, colored at times by old TV shows, movies and song lyric references. There are few political comments and little political bias. She is a vegan and animal lover. Her treatment of religion will no doubt be considered irreverent by fundamentalists, but she calls it like she sees it and as a free-thinker, lifts up the hypocrisy of time-honored conventions. The writing is sporadic at times, morphing into poetry on occasion, sentence fragments and stream-of-consciousness narrative. I was reminded of Vonnegut as I read this relatively short book, at times poignant, scathing, and compassionate. It is worth a second read sometime in the future. This was an eBook copy submitted in exchange for an honest review.
Poetic, energetic. Sentimental, temperamental. Those stories I could relate to were easy reading and enjoyable. Some I just didn't get and a few weren't in line with my political bent. All things considered, it is a fun read and I would recommend this book to some of my friends. - Animal Stories - Classic Film - Celebrities - Essays'
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