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'Enormously moving...Haslett's writing is harrowing, morbidly funny and deeply erotic' Independent on Sunday
Barry Unsworth
'You Are Not a Stranger Here is a brilliant beginning to a literary career.’
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TWO THINGS TO get straight from the beginning: I hate doctors and have never joined a support group in my life. Read the first page
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is an astonishingly good collection of short stories and I can't recommend it highly enough. The writing is superb and the stories are unputdownable. I particularly enjoyed the deep sorrow and trapped eroticism of "The Beginnings of Grief", itself a tour de force amongst very strong contenders.
This is work that carries a powerful shimmer of mystery and longing with it. More from this author - please!
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28 of 31 people found the following review helpful
Touching, Haunting Stories
20 Aug 2003
Format:Paperback
This debut volume of short stories by Adam Haslett begins with six of the most haunting stories I have read in a long while. The last three short stores, while very good, do not reach the same level as those first ones but it is a relief to step back a little from the power and the pain. Mental illness, grief and loss form a common thread throughout the book. The title of the volume comes from the words of one of the characters but the words of another could just as easily have substituted, "We will survive this". Somehow the characters do survive, just barely and with their pain a throbbing wound, but they do survive and the author brings us gently and persuasively to this understanding that people can and do survive just about anything. The stories should make you cry a little, feel a little empty for a moment, and then give you your breath back as you contemplate their jagged beauty. A gem of a book.
25 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Wonderful collection of stories
18 July 2002
Format:Hardcover
Adam Haslett's book You Are Not a Stranger Here is a wonderful collection of nine short stories. All the stories are built around characters that are lonely and isolated from the normal world. There is a sadness to all nine stories that link them together despite the distinctly different settings, characters and situations. I give this book four stars only because some of the stories are so good that they make the others look mediocre. While none of the nine stories is actually mediocre, the outstanding ones show that Haslett is capable of doing better. Haslett's style of writing reminds me of William Faulkner. Haslett's mastery of prose will surely establish him as one of the best new American writers.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
No stranger to strange fiction
24 Jan 2004
Format:Paperback
Adam Haslett's "You Are Not A Stranger Here" is the best collection of short stories I have read in a very long time. These are wonderfully engaging stories, rich with a menagerie of misfit and off-beat (but next-door-neighbour type) characters, each moving through depressive and manic events and circumstances, narrated by an exquisitely-familiar voice. Most of the mini-masterpieces deal with suppressed homosexuality, mental illness taking various shapes and forms, love unrequited, and the curses of extra-sensory perceptions. If only this brilliant wordsmith Haslett had more than one book.
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