Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #66756 in Books
• Published on: 2008-03-06
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Independent on Sunday
'expertly crafted... it is a collection that keeps you on your toes, and unsure of what is coming next'

Telegraph
`a terse artfully linked and thought-provoking sequence on violence and love in human behaviour'

New Statesman
'A beguiling, savagely funny collection of stories.'

Customer Reviews

Unique stories
I've never read anything so original and so moving in my life. I bought the collection because it was shortlisted for the O'connor award and expected something much heavier. But the stories in this collection are both deep and accessible. A small wonder.

Uneven as usual
Some of these stories are brilliant, bow-down-to-them terrific. Others are shtick-yawns. The best are like the wondrous short-short stories of Spencer Holst. The worst are whines from the boring Slacker you'd never listen to for five minutes if you bumped into them at a bar. Buy the book for the wonderful, but expect a very mixed bag.