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Shane Jones' Light Boxes is a beautiful, imaginative, and poetic collection of prose vignettes that underline the need for and undeniable existence of hope and love in a world that sometimes seems sad and dismal. Jones creates a dreamlike landscape where his characters face the worst - an unending February, deep bouts of sadness, the loss of loved ones - but also discover within themselves and each other the possibility of beauty and happiness that can overcome even the coldest winter. Read this book! Not only is it one of the most creative and well-written small press novels I've read in some time, but it will make you believe that love and loveliness are hiding in everything.
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Light Boxes by Shane Jones
Kelly Schirmann, July 29, 2009
Shane Jones' Light Boxes is a beautiful, imaginative, and poetic collection of prose vignettes that underline the need for and undeniable existence of hope and love in a world that sometimes seems sad and dismal. Jones creates a dreamlike landscape where his characters face the worst - an unending February, deep bouts of sadness, the loss of loved ones - but also discover within themselves and each other the possibility of beauty and happiness that can overcome even the coldest winter. Read this book! Not only is it one of the most creative and well-written small press novels I've read in some time, but it will make you believe that love and loveliness are hiding in everything.(3 of 6 readers found this comment helpful)