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'The Gift starts as a comedy of manners and turns into a deep and surreal exposition of the cruelty of generosity … The perfect present for your successful friends.' Louisa Young, Sunday Times
'Few novels excite us enough to make us want to retell them to anyone willing to listen. The Gift is such a novel. With gentle literary grace and great authority, Flusfeder spins reality into a dream and back again.' Elena Lappin, Guardian
'A black comedy of rare originality … thoughtful, amusing, wry … it has the makings of a cult classic. Read it and read it again.' Simon Humphreys, Mail on Sunday
'This could be the perfect gift to answer all gifts.'
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'This fever dream of masculine anxiety and the bad manners of affluence resolves into something unexpectedly wise and generous: a complete story and a very good one.'
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After the weekend was over, when we were driving home from Barry and Sean's house and the twins were at last beginning to whisper themselves to sleep in the back seat, I said to my wife that we must buy our hosts something. Read the first page
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Flusfeder's idea, like all the best ones, is simple, but it is very effective in providing comic opportunities in the storyline. The characters are by and large believeable, and the plot has several intersting twists. Some may say that certain members of the cast act out of character, but it has to be remembered that this is a fable, even if that is not explicitly stated on the flyleaf.
The style of "The Gift" is deceptively easygoing and the way dialogue is presented (always a stern test for any author) is effortless and never false or forced.
The best praise I can give is that this is one of those books where the pages seem to turn themselves. An easy read that will have you thinking about it long after you have put it down.
The book starts of as a really nice read, but after the first part (halfway through the book), the developments become either more of the same or unrealistic and, despite the sometimes hilarious character sketches, the last half of the book could not really hold my attention.
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