- Paperback: 120 pages
- Publisher: Exile (April 18 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1550962205
- ISBN-13: 978-1550962208
- Product Dimensions: 20.1 x 12.4 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 181 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #245,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Supremely inventive...utterly unique" -- Quill and Quire
"Pitch-perfect" --National Post
"One of the funniest books to be published in recent memory" --Literary Review of Canada
"Warped" -- Xtra!
"Pitch-perfect" --National Post
"One of the funniest books to be published in recent memory" --Literary Review of Canada
"Warped" -- Xtra!
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In this follow-up to his acclaimed debut story collection, Mommy Daddy Baby, Greg Kearney continues his investiga- tion into the lives of average people forced to modify their world views in the face of devastating – or at the very least, mortifying – new circumstances. A middle-aged, HIV+ gay man, deformed by the side effects of protease inhibitors, wades cautiously back into the singles scene, a scene now rife with flip, canny young men who think nothing of ripping an ugly stranger to shreds by way of small talk. A fundamentalist Christian housewife thrills to her new-found carnality with a seasoned, secret lover, only to be saddled with the sudden, enervating task of home-schooling her four special-needs children. A washed-up but content pop star is pursued by a pair of shrill documentary filmmakers, heedless of her happiness and hell-bent on refashioning the woman’s life into arty tragedy, even if it kills them. All of them. Mordant, brash, hysterically funny yet always compassionate, these new stories give voice to characters moved to speak in spite of themselves. Good breeding falls away and all things dank and scatological are pondered, embraced or discarded.
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Greg Kearney's clever, irreverent and unabashed voice immediately grabs the readers attention in "Pretty," a short story collection that ridicules and makes theatrical the unglamorous nature of modern domestic life. It presents witty criticism of contemporary living and imparts sympathy for awkward and disenchanted characters, resulting in a mostly thought-provoking read.The author brazenly portrays uncomfortable truths about marriage, family and sex and features honest protagonists who harbour no illusions. These figures have an awareness of a "pretty" aesthetic from which they feel alienated, a fact that makes them at times relatable. At other times, though, their situations seem too outrageous to rouse more than detached sympathy. But even if Kearney's outcasts fail to reflect the depths of human experience, they do entertain uproariously. And even if the stories fail to deliver weighty meditations on the human condition, they do contain clever anecdotes which illustrate just how ugly relationships can be.
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