Veres’ playful style offers a unique slant on the immigrant experience in the ‘90s, including visa entanglements, football mania, swamp tour, holiday bewilderments, fat cats, other foreigners’ absurdities, erotic dreams and funerals. "In the contemporary world of post
modern, gender focused, mini-sectarian, ego-propelled, money grubbing,
hypo-hyping, super-boring, politically correct, sexually correct,
religiously correct, self-promoting, shouting, screaming, minutely
bordered and mega-prosaic writing, there are very few originals. Ella
Veres is an original. She can occasionally write stupid things and has
even been known to be insensitive for brief periods, but she is never
boring, never imitative, and never predictable. She understands that
writing is not like communicating with your best friend or someone who has
your best interests at heart. Her gift is that she can make you aware of
your own existence. On one level she is simply telling you things that
seem even humdrum, the quotidian stuff of life, but as you read you
realize this is not soothing lullabies; this is a punch in the nose. I
recommend Ella Veres to everybody who wants to feel alive. Take a dose of
her at least once a week. But be careful, she can be addicting." You can purchase this book at amazon.com. |