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 Eating Naked - Stephen Dobyns
Newest Review: ... way home runs over a deer and kills it, then befriends a total stranger who is rushing to her boyfriend's house to ... more  ... prevent him from committing suici
de. Once there, the unlikely trio feasts on the dead deer, ... eating naked. In A HAPPY VACANCY, the cover illustration gentleman is a distinguished but boring poet who dies when a pig casually falling from the sky crushes him(!). His wife tries to build herself a new life, trying to shake off the legacy of her husband while at the same time pitying his fate - not so much his death as the fact that a lifetime o...more |
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Eating Naked - Stephen Dobyns: Sixteen tots of black humour: not for the easily depressed (1258 words)
by chris105 - written on 20/02/01 (Very useful, 912 readings)
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Premise: I'm not really into American fiction. But a last-minute desperate purchase from Prague airport - where the threat of a long flight with nothing but the inflight magazine for reading pleasure was looming large - introduced me to the pleasures of Stephen Dobyns' writing. No, the book wasn't the one I'm reviewing now, rather it was his relatively well-known Boy in the Water. At the time I wanted something not too complicated, but possibly intriguing. I'm happy to report that I found just that in Boy in the Water - a highly-suggestive thriller verging on the chiller - the Time Out verdict, "Stephen King with a PhD", couldn't have ...
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