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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Have to agree with the other reviewers here - these stories are so good you want to start re-reading them immediately. Although set in the present they have a timeless quality, and dig deep into character's motivations and self justifications. The writing is always brilliant. Stories like The Red Balloon and The Necessary Strength will have you wondering about them for days. I'm a fan now and will seek out his earlier collection.
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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This is one of the best short story collections I've read in a long time. David Constantine - one of our foremost poets, and prize-winning translator of Holderlin and Goethe - deserves a place alongside such masters of the genre as Gogol and Chekhov, V.S.Pritchett and William Trevor. He chronicles the ordinary yet extraordinary lives of secret desperation most of us lead in prose of an intense, barbed, mythic quality. The short story is the most perfect missile with which to do this. After all, the poem as a literary form is, well, ultimately about itself; and the novel has its sights set on "grander" themes and objectives. These stories are about unique individuals and about us all. Read, empathize, and be jolted.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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I only knew David Constantine as a poet, but I saw the reader review already posted on Amazon and thought 'This really does sound special', so I bought a copy. These are some of the most burningly immediate, original, ungimmicky, beautifully structured stories I have read for a decade or more. They are also wise and kind. You come away from reading them feeling life has expanded, and the world is stranger and more wonderful than before. I do not like to gush, but these stories really are exceptional. Read them.
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