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The Greatest Gift - Danny Leigh


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The Greatest Gift - Danny Leigh

 
Description: ISBN 0571215068 / Author: Danny Leigh / Genre: Fiction / A dazzling tale, told with great humour, of the last seconds of a man's life as ... more
The Greatest Gift - Danny Leigh ... he leaps from a nine-storey building. Matthew Viss works for the city's premier concierge service. Whatever you need, he can provide. And he'll do it with a smile. He just wants to help - that's all he's ever wanted to do. The Greatest Gift is the story of his downfall.

Newest Review: ... Gift. Matthew is someone who wants to give. His failure to give to his daughter was his downfall and his chance to give to ... more

 ... anyone and everyone who needs it is his redemption. His job relies on him to provide services for people too pressured for time to do it themselves. Before long, he realises that giving a service isn’t enough and he starts to give more and more, until his desire to give becomes an obsession Danny Leigh’s style is an interesting one. There’s an alternation between Matthew’s story and brief flits into the lives of the people he’s talking about on his fall. He mentions each of the people in his apartment building as...more

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IainWear
Premium Review The Greatest Gift - Danny Leigh: Not so great (877 words)
by - written on 25/11/05 (Very useful, 135 readings)
Rating:

A few years ago, I came up with an idea for a short story that involved a character jumping off a high roof. The idea was that he would deliver his last words on the way down. As with many of my ideas, it remained nothing more than a theory and the story was never written. However, the idea remained with me and so when I saw Danny Leigh’s “The Greatest Gift” worked on much the same principle, I was immediately intrigued. It’s around midday and Matthew Viss is standing on the roof of his apartment building, nine floors above ground. As he jumps and as he falls, he tells the story of how he ended up in that situation and how he came to believe that ending it ...  Read the complete review

 

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