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A collection of nine short tales by the author of Seven Types of Ambiguity explores the complex worlds of such protagonists as lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and murderers, in a volume that follows such themes as betrayal and lost opportunities. 35,000 first printing.
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Perlman writes fiction with muscle. ("People")
By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant. ("Newsday")
Invigorating stories...enlivened by Perlman's intelligence, verbal energy, and mischievous wit. ("Entertainment Weekly")
Impressive...carefully imagined, entirely believable...[Perlman] manages to pack whole lives into few paragraphs. ("New York Times Book Review")
"Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman''s intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit." - Entertainment Weekly
"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant." - Newsday
"Fans of Perlman''s grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping ''big questions'' of modern life won''t be disappointed." - Elle
"Perlman writes fiction with muscle." - People
"The nine tales here don''t just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original." - New York Post
"Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman's intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit." - Entertainment Weekly
"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant." - Newsday
"Fans of Perlman's grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping 'big questions' of modern life won't be disappointed." - Elle
"Perlman writes fiction with muscle." - People
"The nine tales here don't just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original." - New York Post
-Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman's intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit.- - Entertainment Weekly
-By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant.- - Newsday
-Fans of Perlman's grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping 'big questions' of modern life won't be disappointed.- - Elle
-Perlman writes fiction with muscle.- - People
-The nine tales here don't just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original.- - New York Post
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By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant. ("Newsday")
Invigorating stories...enlivened by Perlman's intelligence, verbal energy, and mischievous wit. ("Entertainment Weekly")
Impressive...carefully imagined, entirely believable...[Perlman] manages to pack whole lives into few paragraphs. ("New York Times Book Review")
"Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman''s intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit." - Entertainment Weekly
"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant." - Newsday
"Fans of Perlman''s grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping ''big questions'' of modern life won''t be disappointed." - Elle
"Perlman writes fiction with muscle." - People
"The nine tales here don''t just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original." - New York Post
"Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman's intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit." - Entertainment Weekly
"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant." - Newsday
"Fans of Perlman's grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping 'big questions' of modern life won't be disappointed." - Elle
"Perlman writes fiction with muscle." - People
"The nine tales here don't just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original." - New York Post
-Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman's intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit.- - Entertainment Weekly
-By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant.- - Newsday
-Fans of Perlman's grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping 'big questions' of modern life won't be disappointed.- - Elle
-Perlman writes fiction with muscle.- - People
-The nine tales here don't just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original.- - New York Post
Elliot Perlman was born in Australia. He is the author of the short-story collection The Reasons I Won't Be Coming, which won the Betty Trask Award (UK) and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Book of the Year Award. Riverhead Books will publish this collection in 2005.
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