Genni Gunn

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The world of rock music is a world of men. Women can sing or play the piano, but they're not expected to play the bass guitar. Of course, there are a few "all-girl" groups, but they work in a musical ghetto of their own. This, however, is a book of stories about a woman who dares to call herself a musician and insists that we come to know her as she really is.

 

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"Deftly using the first person limited, Gunn demonstrates again her acute sensitivity to language's potentialities and weaknesses in the communication of human desire tempered by pain...Gunn has her own style marked out very distinctly and successfully." –  University of Toronto Quarterly, Fall 1992, Vol. 62, No. 1

 

"What Genni Gunn's terse, wry narratives have in common with Jack Kerouac's better known work of the same name is a knowledge that "the road" is not simplistically the road to freedom, but freedom itself. On The Road is a densely crafted book about love and illusion..." – The Vancouver Sun, January 1992

 

"Gunn's stories have a good back beat and lively, feminist syncopation."  –  The Globe & Mail, August 1991

 

"The calibre of Gunn's writing is exceptional." -The Windsor Star, July 1991

 

"...Gunn is writing polished, strong short stories.” – The Edmonton Journal, July 1991

 

"On The Road is filled with forceful images and believable characters.”

–  London Free Press, November 1991

 

 "Gunn has created an enjoyable character whose cynicism educates, and whose perseverance inspires." -- Canadian Book Review Annual 1991

 

 "Realistic surrealism would be an appropriate label for the collection, which captures the rock music world better than anything I've previously read." -- Saint John Telegraph, 1992

 

"Gunn's approach in this book is one of a writer-poet, not a journalist's overview. She is a talented writer; her specific style and syntax lifts the book into an artistic work of poetic prose." -- Night Moves, 1991

 

"Agile, stark, without embellishment, the language lingers in the dissection/reconstruction of words which assume multiple meanings, a characteristic in the works of Genni Gunn, who is often defined as a feminist writer, just as she has been and is a woman who is a musician outside stereotypes." -- Lifestyles, 1992