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Bezig met laden... Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical (editie 2009)door Robert Shearman
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. wonderful short stories... about love - being in love, being without love, obsession with love, and the lives of the people looking for it. Quirky with a hint of surreal, but beautifully and understatedly written ( ) I should have known that a book of love stories by Rob Shearman would be depressing. These are very depressing. But that's okay. It's the kind of pain that lets you know you're still alive, and you feel joy for feeling it, and maybe you even laugh inappropriately. The stories are bizarre and macabre and imaginative and quite frequently gross, but they always work. Even when a story about a woman having the world's most awkward affair is for some reason also about running over a strange and hideous creature in the middle of the night. Or especially. I think my favorite was the one about the people who literally gave other people their hearts when they fell in love. Or maybe the one where it turns out they can measure exactly how much you love someone. Or the one where a woman is haunted by her ghost cat her entire life. The one where Satan tries to make it as a novelist wasn't my favorite, but it was still good. I've been waiting for this to be released in the States since I read and loved Mr. Shearman's first collection of stories, Tiny Deaths, last December. I finally ordered it online directly from Big Finish Productions and I don't know why I waited so long. Their service was impeccable. Once again, I loved, loved, loved Mr. Shearman's stories! From the title to the cover art to the hidden story - I was absolutely enchanted. Imaginative, funny, touching and beautifully written. I hear that he is coming out with a novel next and I cannot wait! Highly recommended for everyone. I loved Shearman's Tiny Deaths and this is another great collection of quirky, slightly surreal and on occasion disturbing stories. Each story is about love, but not love as we have come to expect it. Sometimes love gets in the way, becomes boring, annoying or obsessive - but here love is about an affair intermingling with flying rabbits, a pig in the Garden of Eden, a husband gone astray when Luxemburg suddenly disappears and even an unemployed husband/father who becomes a tree-in-training. While the stories may be unusual, the telling of them can't be faulted. Crisp, enticing, each one is a strange little gem. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
The first love song in the world, as composed by a pig in the Garden of Eden. The Devil, alarmed when his hobby of writing romantic fiction begins to upstage his day job. Hearts kept in Tupperware boxes, small countries that vanish from the European mainland overnight, and a kidnapper who gets more than he bargained for when his victim associates him with George Clooney. It could only be Robert Shearman's 'Love Songs for the Shy and Cynical'. Six stories of the comic and the frightening and the downright weird, taken from his multi-award winning short story collection. Love Among the Lobelias performed by Toby Hadoke Luxembourg performed by Jane Goddard Pang performed by Toby Hadoke George Clooney's Moustache performed by India Fisher Sweet Nothings performed by Jane Goddard One Last Love Song performed by India Fisher . Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)823.92Literature English & Old English literatures English fiction Modern Period 2000-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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