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The Brutal Language of Love (Paperback)
by Alicia Erian (Author)

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Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Headline Review (4 Feb 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0747267030
ISBN-13: 978-0747267034
Product Dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 x 1.2 cm

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Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 577,682 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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‘Very, very funny... she's the lovechild of Candace Bushnell and J. D. Salinger' Maggie O'Farrell, Independent on Sunday

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Alicia Erian's deliciously grown-up debut may not be a book for nice girls, but it has a lot to teach us about the unruly nature of desire. A college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza waiter, a spelling champion spends her afternoons in the bath with the classroom bully and a newlywed finds herself strangely drawn to her husband's father. Bold, achingly funny and never less than heartfelt, these are stories about women who dare to grasp at experience in the knowledge that they may live to regret it. The Brutal Language of Love announces the arrival of a true and highly original voice in American fiction.

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Stories to warm the heart, 1 Jun 2001

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This review is from: The Brutal Language of Love (Paperback)

Alicia Erian's book is a little marvel. Her stories are deceptively direction-less and instead meander around the warm fuzzy spaces of the human heart. They have a gently comic tone and many laugh-out-loud moments, but Erian is always precise in her use of language, and her characters are full and vivid. The best story is "Bikini", in which the protagonist is convinced she is a lesbian because she likes trying on bras. There are slivers of darkness creeping throughout the book, but the stories are so damned funny and plucky that the overall effect is of sipping a glass of peach schnapps and lemonade on a sunny day in the garden.

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Stories about strange situations, 30 Jul 2001

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The good thing about short story collections is that you can hate one story, and quite easily like the next one. I wouldn't say I hated any of the nine stories in this book, but I felt like it started well, but ended rather weakly. I didn't really like the last story or two - apart from that, I thought it was great. Unusual, thought-provoking stories about normal people in strange situations, and funny with it. My favourite stories were Alcatraz (the fat girl in the bath with the school bully), the woman who thought she was a lesbian after being fitted for a bra, and the girl who wanted to lose her virginity to the pizza waiter (can't remember the names of those stories!).

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