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3.0 out of 5 stars
15 linked stories,
By SHR (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 15 kinds of desire (Paperback)
I have mixed feelings about this book; each chapter explores a different type of desire and in doing so, a different way of people relating to each other and the world.
Each story is stand alone but the characters can appear in more than one story, as they touch each other's lives (sometimes in profound ways, but always at the edges). The prose is easy to read and flows well; the emotion of the pieces comes through in the detail of the stories. The other character in the book is King's Cross (even though not all of the stories are set there, or even in Australia), and the location is important to the attitudes of the people at the centre of the stories, as well as their life experiences and resultant expectations. Most of the characters are flawed and even those at peace with themselves are somehow sad. In many ways for me the most interesting aspect was not the desires of the characters, but the way in which they bumped into each other's lives; I was always looking for a previous character to re-appear. I think the most interesting story for me was one in which a wife makes her philandering husband (he appears in 2 other stories) magically disappear; it is all about perception and is was thought provoking.
3.0 out of 5 stars
15 short stories,
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This review is from: 15 kinds of desire (Paperback)
This collection of 15 stories about a few people who, whilst they don't know each other, ar linked together by events or actions of their family members, or lovers. Each story demonstrates a type of love or a way of coping with a type of love. The only story I dodn't like really was that of the drover's wife. But the story of Candy which has the Drover's wife's HUsband in it was a good one. Like Unbalanced, the Drive-in marriage story was fabulous and the one of the wife in a coma was also terrific. I was astounded at how the author managed to link all these people together and not have the stories actually dependant on the previous story.
Well worth a read.
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