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Alcoves Inside the Lining
"There’s a brutal beauty to Tom Rowe's ability to drop all his armour and present emotionally intense stories filled with warmth, humour, and carnality on the edge of an abyss."
Each of the 11 short stories in Tom Rowe's first short stories collection deal with people going through change in their lives, from a man lost in himself who seeks out a woman he once dated after thinking he saw her in his store, a photographer who lived his life through the people in front of his camera now finding himself without identity to an older man dealing with his wife's ever-deepening dementia, each story offers a different take on a time that will come to us all sooner or later; transition. Each story offers honest, realistic tales with a twist of magic in the prose and oozes pain, hope, humour and human spirit.
'Alcoves inside the lining' also features a preface from Dave Louden, author of Lost Angeles, Bone Idol and White Mexicans.
Each of the 11 short stories in Tom Rowe's first short stories collection deal with people going through change in their lives, from a man lost in himself who seeks out a woman he once dated after thinking he saw her in his store, a photographer who lived his life through the people in front of his camera now finding himself without identity to an older man dealing with his wife's ever-deepening dementia, each story offers a different take on a time that will come to us all sooner or later; transition. Each story offers honest, realistic tales with a twist of magic in the prose and oozes pain, hope, humour and human spirit.
'Alcoves inside the lining' also features a preface from Dave Louden, author of Lost Angeles, Bone Idol and White Mexicans.
146 pages, Paperback
Published March 18, 2016
About the author
Tom Rowe
2 books3 followersTom Rowe was born in a small town in South Yorkshire, England. He moved to Manchester six years ago and hated it. Writing followed shortly after and, when he looked a little harder, he fell in love with it.
His debut novel, under the pseudonym Todd Levin, 'Not Dark Yet', a semi-autobiographical story of a man on a downward spiral following the loss of the two most important people in his life, was released in early 2014. A darkly humorous story compared to works by Charles Bukowski, John Fante and Donald Ray Pollock, it is as much a love story to women and the city of Manchester as it is a tale of loss and moving on.
His debut novel, under the pseudonym Todd Levin, 'Not Dark Yet', a semi-autobiographical story of a man on a downward spiral following the loss of the two most important people in his life, was released in early 2014. A darkly humorous story compared to works by Charles Bukowski, John Fante and Donald Ray Pollock, it is as much a love story to women and the city of Manchester as it is a tale of loss and moving on.
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May 20, 2016
There are some lines you read that make you set the book down until they've sunk in. Alcoves inside the Lining is populated with such lines.
Rowe's writing style might live on ground level, amongst the smog, stench of beer and the lipstick stained mugs of life but it's content lives up with the Angels. There's a richness to AITL's understanding of human nature, death and decline that creates a superb literary tapestry.
I'd been privy to some of his shorts through the Literally Stories website but Rowe has outdone even his finest work available there.
Rowe's writing style might live on ground level, amongst the smog, stench of beer and the lipstick stained mugs of life but it's content lives up with the Angels. There's a richness to AITL's understanding of human nature, death and decline that creates a superb literary tapestry.
I'd been privy to some of his shorts through the Literally Stories website but Rowe has outdone even his finest work available there.
Displaying 1 of 1 review