“An
entertaining and insightful book”
—The Nation
“Moore
is never very far away from a much older tradition—the
one that seems to say, ‘Come inside, stranger, and put
your boots up on the fender of the stove and let me tell you
a tale.’”
—Ottawa Citizen
“Chairs
is well-written and interesting, and shows a side of a city
that most will never see, but will find in these pages a powerful
and insightful, even Hemingwayesque, clarity.”
—Edmonton Journal
“Chairs
is outstanding.”
—Guide of Bangkok
“To
his credit, Christopher G. Moore has the sharpest eyes and
most discerning mind on these shores, his being an expat notwithstanding.
Indeed, a good many locals are unaware of the levels and degrees
of subterfuge enmeshing them. To paraphrase Graham Greene,
in another context, Moore is our man in Bangkok.”
—Bangkok Post
“Another
excellent feature in this book is that although the short
narratives are all “stand alone”
pieces, they are also inter-related and impinge on each other
in unsuspected ways. Moore is much more than just a wordsmith,
he is a literary craftsman.”
—Pattaya Mail
“Chairs
is rooted in the ancient traditions of storytelling as well
as in the new ones of metafiction.”
—The New Brunswick Reader
“Moore
manages to treat the stories with enough panche that we don’t
feel
that we are outside looking in—you’re already
in.”
—Is Magazine (Singapore)
