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Buffalo Roots

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John Cei Douglas

Price:  £4.50

Page 45 Review by Stephen

Refreshingly experimental, with flashes of full-colour painting amidst the shiny black ink on clean white paper stock, this is an impression of a brief relationship caught through snippets of conversation which are, in the end, all one ever remembers of them: disjointed glimpses of where you were and what was said and done there. Mere fragments in which you were happy, exuberant, melancholic or discontented - when you needed reassurance, or perhaps wanted space. So it is with Emmé, an aspiring writer who enjoys Riley's company but won't commit to more, and Riley, a young painter who does want so much more but settles for what he can get... some of the time.

"It's just too much... or not enough." Great line.

For some this may prove too disjointed, but I was thoroughly impressed with the honesty and observation here: the contradictions, the inconsistencies, and the way in which what's thought casts light on what's said.

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