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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
In this sexy, fast-paced second collection of stories, Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and the nonfiction Candyfreak, takes on love and loss around the turn of the millennium, showing how average people living in big cities and university towns tackle heartbreak with humor. The title story traces the flailing love between a magazine editor and a commitment-phobic medical resident who seems too good to be true. In "Appropriate Sex," a refreshing addition to the growing genre of stories about the goings-on in undergraduate writing workshops, a writer-in-residence is treated to a parade of students who "discourse on Tristam Shandy," seduce him and get him stoned in the same office hour. "A Happy Dream" portrays the lucky outcome of a blind date on which Kate, a bike messenger masquerading as a chimney sweep, forces Henry, a cautious sous-chef, to think on his feet. While struggling with his own recent breakup, the narrator of "Skull" listens as his friend confesses how he and his new girlfriend are finding love in unlikely ways that involve her prosthetic eye. Almond doesn't dig too deep or offer up grand theories about romantic love, but his easy, natural storytelling and consoling reminders that intimacy is awkward and messy will carry readers happily along. (Apr. 22)Forecast: Almond scored a surprise hit with Candyfreak, his confessional tour of candy factories. This laid-back follow-up delivers more guilty pleasure and should attract—and satisfy—Almond's new fans. Author tour.
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From Booklist
Almond hit it big with Candyfreak [BKL F 1 04], his best-selling gonzo travelogue, but his debut, the funny and explicit short story collection My Life in Heavy Metal (2002), had already earned him cult status. Almond proves himself to be just as irreverent, audacious, and amusing in his new set of stories, but his subjects are more diverse, and he manages to be even more sardonic and affecting. The honed-to-perfection title story about a love affair gone wrong is convincingly told from the woman's point of view, while "Appropriate Sex," a tale about a college writing teacher drenched in his students' hectic eroticism, is all male. Going further afield, there's an eerie tale about a family convinced that aliens have tinkered with them; "The Idea of Michael Jackson's Dick," a title that speaks for itself; and an exceedingly strange and provocative vision of a melancholy Abraham Lincoln and an uneasy Frederick Douglass floating down the Mississippi getting tipsy. As out there as Almond gets, he never loses his down-to-earth tenderness and agile delicacy. Donna Seaman
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In this sexy, fast-paced second collection of stories, Almond, author of My Life in Heavy Metal and the nonfiction Candyfreak, takes on love and loss around the turn of the millennium, showing how average people living in big cities and university towns tackle heartbreak with humor. The title story traces the flailing love between a magazine editor and a commitment-phobic medical resident who seems too good to be true. In "Appropriate Sex," a refreshing addition to the growing genre of stories about the goings-on in undergraduate writing workshops, a writer-in-residence is treated to a parade of students who "discourse on Tristam Shandy," seduce him and get him stoned in the same office hour. "A Happy Dream" portrays the lucky outcome of a blind date on which Kate, a bike messenger masquerading as a chimney sweep, forces Henry, a cautious sous-chef, to think on his feet. While struggling with his own recent breakup, the narrator of "Skull" listens as his friend confesses how he and his new girlfriend are finding love in unlikely ways that involve her prosthetic eye. Almond doesn't dig too deep or offer up grand theories about romantic love, but his easy, natural storytelling and consoling reminders that intimacy is awkward and messy will carry readers happily along. (Apr. 22)Forecast: Almond scored a surprise hit with Candyfreak, his confessional tour of candy factories. This laid-back follow-up delivers more guilty pleasure and should attract—and satisfy—Almond's new fans. Author tour.
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
From Booklist
Almond hit it big with Candyfreak [BKL F 1 04], his best-selling gonzo travelogue, but his debut, the funny and explicit short story collection My Life in Heavy Metal (2002), had already earned him cult status. Almond proves himself to be just as irreverent, audacious, and amusing in his new set of stories, but his subjects are more diverse, and he manages to be even more sardonic and affecting. The honed-to-perfection title story about a love affair gone wrong is convincingly told from the woman's point of view, while "Appropriate Sex," a tale about a college writing teacher drenched in his students' hectic eroticism, is all male. Going further afield, there's an eerie tale about a family convinced that aliens have tinkered with them; "The Idea of Michael Jackson's Dick," a title that speaks for itself; and an exceedingly strange and provocative vision of a melancholy Abraham Lincoln and an uneasy Frederick Douglass floating down the Mississippi getting tipsy. As out there as Almond gets, he never loses his down-to-earth tenderness and agile delicacy. Donna Seaman
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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