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Ladykiller: Stories
by
Charlotte Gill (Goodreads Author)
Ladykiller is the astonishing debut collection of seven smart stories from an exciting new voice in Canadian literature. Charlotte Gill is a brilliant young writer who is not afraid to stare down the truth and shame the devil. She conjures compelling stories about escape, self-sabotage, and the power of unconscious desire. A couple plots against a crying baby in the apartm...more
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Published
April 16th 2005
by Thomas Allen Publishers, Inc.
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I'm always delighted to discover a fresh voice, especially when it's a short story writer. Charlotte Gill is precisely that. Whether she's writing about a pot dealer with ambivalent feelings for his girlfriend (whom he seems to have acquired while in a bit of a fugue state, as if he were grocery shopping on autopilot), twins locked into a love/hate relationship with each other, or a woman who ends up having an affair with her professor and watching her life unravel as a result, this is great wri...more
Wow. This was a horrible book. The characters were thin and unlikeable, the stories underdeveloped and stopped abruptly without making sense. Not entirely what drove me to read the book in its entirety other than a driving sense of "it must get better", which it doesn't.
Sadly, the potential of these stories falls short of being even flaccid. How depressing - Canadian books always seem to fall short.
Sadly, the potential of these stories falls short of being even flaccid. How depressing - Canadian books always seem to fall short.
Overall the stories in this collection provided interesting reading in the form of intense characters, absurd obsessions, toxic relationships and extremely bad life choices. “You Drive,” “Homology,” and “Island of Flowers” were the most engaging and poignant for me personally but all of the stories had something. Honestly, I was expecting to like this collection more than I did and I can’t exactly put my finger on why I didn’t. I think it was the lack of difference in narrators and voice, every...more
Seen stories that pack a punch with fresh prose and unusual characters. I especially liked "Open Water" and "Homotology." All but one was in present tense, however; I would have liked more variety.
Jun 17, 2012
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Bloody awesome.
This book was not a novel as I thought it was when I brought it home from the library. It was a series of short stories. I don't particularly like short stories, because they are too short. And they remind me of school.
I had 2.5 stories left and gave up. I found that they all had a really depressing tone to them and all ended fairly badly. I figured I'd never enjoy what was left and have decided to move on to something else.
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Charlotte Gill is the Canadian author of the short story collection Ladykiller, a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for fiction and winner of the Danuta Gleed Award and the B.C. Book Prize for fiction. Her work has appeared in Best Canadian Stories, The Journey Prize Stories, and many magazines. She lives on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia.
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