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In Jim Savio's collection of stories, The Fairy Flag, we find characters like Willy Jonas,
in Traveling North, or the mother photographer in, The Snake, who seem if not content,
at least resigned to living on the edge. In the same way that Bobby and Munro, in the title
story, stare at the familiar, rugged coastline of Scotland and see it only as ephemeral
shapes on a radar screen, the hope of redemption remains dim for most of the people
inhabiting the pages of this book. However, something surfaces from the depths of their
chaos and plugs the hole in their despair. Against the backdrop of geography from South
Florida to South America, Scotland, New Jersey, Italy and the Far East these stories
resonate with the reality of their character's lives and the underlying truth we look for in a myth.
These stories will be appreciated by a wide audience, as they evoke wide ranges of emotion,
from the violent to the poetic. Foreword Magazine
Savio is oh so savvy. He knows how to write scary
stuff and make it beautiful to read or take
beautiful stuff and make it
scary. He is not for the sleepless or feint of heart, but a good tonic
for the restless and irritable of the world. Be aware: read with
care. M.G. Stephens
In a stunning and original collection of first fiction
Jim Savio opens to the very heart of American
life by examining the
lives of peripatetic university professors, children, drug dealers and
prisoners
with a power and a beauty reminiscent of Denis Johnson. Savio
manages to create art that is
profoundly political and yet
unforgettable in its violence and beauty.
An absolutely amazing debut
collection! Sapphire
The Fairy Flag is a neat package of stories. I
really admire the variety of styles and forms.
Reminds me of a
Beatles album: lots of tasty licks with no repetition...suggestive of a
Protean talent.
David Daniel, author of White Rabbit
Jim Savio's collection of short stories had me
captivated. Sometimes you get the tone of a writer's
voice and it tells
you what it wants you to remember, and after that you would follow that
writer
into any story he wanted to tell you. It's a book full of
surprises and of sentences one wants to read
over several times. Savio
is a thoughtful, unusual writer and the taste I had of him here makes
me
want to read more. Rosalind Brackenbury, book
review Solares Hill,
October, 2001
Not since Raymond Carver have characters been so raw
that they're real, and so real
that they're mesmerizing. Laura Pederson
and Parsons School of Design, in NYC.
first draft of his