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Greedy Little Eyes
In Greedy Little Eyes, award-winning writer Billie Livingston explores the universal craving for connection, both emotional and physical. A Vintage Canada trade paperback original.
A young misfit is assaulted by a delusional homeless man and subsequently finds herself caught in the middle of two bullying cops who invite her to hit back; an impulsive and restless mother hung...more
A young misfit is assaulted by a delusional homeless man and subsequently finds herself caught in the middle of two bullying cops who invite her to hit back; an impulsive and restless mother hung...more
Paperback, 256 pages
Published
June 1st 2010
by Vintage Canada
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Alice told me one night after our father had gone to bed that she’d been thinking maybe this wasn’t right, this business of having multiple lovers. Forty, fifty? How many lovers would she have by the time she was done? She’d be so far into the triple digits, she’d need an abacus to keep track.
Peering into my eyes she added, “There’s no joy in frivolous sex, Angie. I’m lonesome.”
Suddenly self-conscious, I wondered if my envy was always this apparent.
“Maybe I never should have gone with girls at a...more
Peering into my eyes she added, “There’s no joy in frivolous sex, Angie. I’m lonesome.”
Suddenly self-conscious, I wondered if my envy was always this apparent.
“Maybe I never should have gone with girls at a...more
I finished this book last week. And I Loved it. I found some of the stories so raw and personally haunting that I started to reread them already. The writing is straight forward and yet still poetic. Livingston has a way of phrasing things, describing emotions and situations, that causes me to sit up and yell, "yes! that's exactly what it's like!" I'll be hanging on to my copy. But I know what to get my sister for her birthday now.
This one really knocked me out. I was so gripped by the stories -- it sounds stupid but I literally laughed out loud and later teared-up in the same story. The writing is strong for sure, but the stories themselves kept me awake at night. I still can't stop thinking about it -- Especially "Do Not Touch" and "Before I Would Ever Hurt You".
This short story collection by Billie Livingston started out a little slow but those last three stories were fantastic. While Livingston is no Alice Munro, and this is not Cease to Blush (her amazing novel) it is a worthwhile read.
Livingston, who won The Danuta Gleed award for this gorgeous book, wrote a collection of dark, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes heartbreaking, well-crafted stories. Livingston does not shy away from drama, which I love. So many Canadian stories play it safe, afraid of being ‘too much,’ but not Livingston. She gives you murders and suicide, a mother who abducts her daughter’s friend, and it is never too much. Her writing is witty and honest and intimate and begs to be read again. In fact, I jus...more
If I could write like Billie Livingston, I'd be a very happy woman.
Twisted little short stories...I enjoyed this.
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somewhat dark but interesting
I want to write stories like this. Wonderful!
After the great review in the June 5 Globe and Mail, I couldn't wait to get my hands on the book. This is Livingston at her best. I came close to fisticuffs with my beloved as we fought over the book while on vacation -- we each have a copy but only brought his. Wonderful book of stories. RT
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Billie Livingston is a fiction writer, poet, and sometime essayist. Born in Hamilton, Ontario, she grew up in Toronto and Vancouver, and has since lived in Tokyo, Hamburg, Munich, Los Angeles and London, England. Her first employment was filling the dairy coolers in a Macs MIlk. She went on to work varying lengths of time as a file clerk, receptionist, cocktail waitress, model, actor, chocolate sa...more
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