- Paperback: 202 pages
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd. (Sep 1 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1905583176
- ISBN-13: 978-1905583171
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 200 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,728,871 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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“The prose, winging between stateliness and the coarsest urban patois, is fluent and flawless.” —Independent
“Strange, creepy, often brilliant” —Financial Times
“Often in the last scene, often in the last line, O'Brien . . . withdraws his offer of a pint of mild in the local piss-palace and nails your bottom lip to the bar instead.” —Times Literary Supplement
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Chain-smoking alcoholics, warring academics, gothic stalkers, and aspiring writers are just some of the visitors that browse the mysterious library at the heart of this sinister novel. Idlers and idolizers alike can be referenced, in body or in text, among the crepuscular alcoves and dim staircases of this seemingly unassuming building. The secret to a family curse, a dog-eared first edition of Wallace Stevens’ Harmonium, the gruesome fate of a feminist literary theorist—all are available to simply take down from the shelf. Moving between genres, ranging from gothic horror to English pastoral, from critical theory to Cold War noir, this riveting and voracious story-within-stories crescendos the turbulent voices of culture to an effect equally maddening and exalting.
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Fun stories; odd translation, Dec 10 2009
By Grumpy Reader "greader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: I Love You When I'm Drunk (Paperback)
These were funny, mostly topical stories about current fads, movements, affairs and marriages. I definitely recommend them to anyone who likes modern, original, satirical short stories. So I give the book five stars in spite of the translation, which is quite funky in spots. I can't tell whether the translator is trying to imitate some kind of Spanish/Catalan slang in his use of certain odd words and phrases, or if those words are some form of modern British slang. At any rate, there are quite a number of these spots in the stories, and the meaning (sometimes crucial to what is going on) is completely lost on this American reader (and no, the words and phrases didn't show up when I googled them).
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