- Hardcover: 186 pages
- Publisher: Hamish Hamilton Ltd (16 July 1981)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0241104262
- ISBN-13: 978-0241104262
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,471,960 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of short stories from the author of THE BLUE AFTERNOON. Boyd writes about adolescent sex in a Scottish public school for boys, the seedy underworld of modern America, and murder in a quiet Devon cottage. Includes two stories which feature Morgan Leafy, Boyd's hero from A GOOD MAN IN AFRICA. First published in 1981.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
It is hard to become of age!
20 Oct 2001
Format:Hardcover
A collection of stories about initiation. Killing Lizards is a marvellous story about a young boy shifting from killing lizards, as phallic symbols, to blackmailing his mother to get the love he wants from her, especially since the blackmailing tool shows the father does not control the mother any more.
I also loved Hardly Ever, as a frustrated initiation to sex for a teenager. His initiation is purely superficial, unable that he is to go through it, in spite of a real possibility he goes to sleep on (he goes to sleep, with a girl, when that girl is ready for more), but it is always compensated verbally by some bragging about with his school pals.
Gifts is even stranger. The young student is unable to get through his initiation and has to satisfy himself with some gifts. Everyone of his conquests presents him with personal or confidential elements. His poverty, caused by some postal strike, makes this experience even funnier, funny-strange, because the poorer he gets, the more private gifts he receives.
Boyd is a strange writer about frustrated, and even twisted, initiation for teenagers. Fascinating how they can live on this frustration that becomes their everyday food, or even fodder, the brain being more or less negated.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Fabulous book of short stories
5 April 1999
Format:Hardcover
This book was given to me by my college English professor. Even though it is out of print, it is worth finding and reading. The stories are short and reflect upon what emotions and feelings one goes through while growing up and going through this thing called life. I enjoy reading this book while around the pool and relaxing since the stories are short and not demanding of hard concentration. The reading is at a moderate level and the plots often provoke an assesment of the readers' own life and his reactions to situations. A very good book!
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