"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." –
"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
"...Gunn is writing polished, strong short stories.” – The
"On The Road is filled with forceful images and believable characters.”
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"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." --
"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