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Staying Alive and Other Stories
Staying Alive and Other Stories
Staying Alive and Other Stories
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If youre looking for plot twists and turns that keep you guessing until the end, Staying Alive is a must-read. You might think you know where its going, but you cant be sure until the very end. One of my favorites and an excellent suspense-filled story of greed and betrayal.

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Release dateSep 2, 2015
ISBN9781504932677
Staying Alive and Other Stories
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John H. Hoel

This author, John Hoel, has been having a lot of troubles for the last ten years in his attempt to write and finish a novel. However, he has been doing very well in turning out collections of short stories and has been writing about twenty of them a year, equally now approximately two hundred short stories in all. He figures that if he were to write a novel, it would have to have about eight hundred pages for it to be a satisfying read. But for the time being, he tells us we’ll just have to be satisfied reading his collections of short stories since they are as many people. This book is imaginative and very well written and full of unexpected twists and turns.

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