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Playing Silly Buggers and Other Stories
Sooty Stevens receives an unexpected visit from a barely-remembered acquaintance. Jim Christ finds redemption in the unlikeliest of places. An attempted break-up goes terribly awry. And a boy attempts to enforce law and order in wild Wales. A set of stories by the author of Wankers , combining tenderness, wit, and often unlikely pathos, sometimes in the same paragraph.
142 pages, Paperback
Published March 1, 2020
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April 5, 2020
Stories:
1. 'The visit' (death is very embarrassing)
2. 'Three couples' (there are services we provide which could not be bought)
3. 'Profiling' (the falseness of bureaucracy)
4. 'Randy old bastard' (all love is God's love)
5. 'Three friendships' (there are burdens we welcome which would be too cruel as punishment)
6. 'A breakup breaks down' (silent ineffectual rampage; the sheer power of cowardice)
7. 'Three families' (there are indignities we inflict which could not be earned)
8. 'James, Alison & Gwen' (the many splendours)
9. 'On Camberwell Green' (the pain of previous joy, why we cannot speak to those we have spoken a certain amount with)
10. 'A romance' (the indefatigibility of the voyeur)
11. 'An English rose' (autobiography as personal pornography)
12. 'High' (artists aren't more mad, it's just that working from home lets you be)
13. 'A minor betrayal' (the shock of youth, and youth's generosity)
14. 'Back home' (the awkwardly unfilial, the old skin shed)
15. 'Playing Silly Buggers' (awful youth, boring luxury, exciting responsibility)
16. 'Wine and dine' (the unbearable lightness of customer service)
17. 'Badge' (the powerful relics and total mysticism of childhood)
18. 'After the autumn ball' (the outside view on insides)
19. 'Hate' (the beam in thine own eye)
It contains the sequel to the novella 'Wankers', but has many more wankers in it. Lots and lots of charming Scottish girls as well though. Very close detail of many kinds of sexuality (the swaggering pan, the indifferently repressed, the hateful, the sweet and preconscious, the hopeless, the plugged or extinct volcano).
1. 'The visit' (death is very embarrassing)
2. 'Three couples' (there are services we provide which could not be bought)
3. 'Profiling' (the falseness of bureaucracy)
4. 'Randy old bastard' (all love is God's love)
5. 'Three friendships' (there are burdens we welcome which would be too cruel as punishment)
6. 'A breakup breaks down' (silent ineffectual rampage; the sheer power of cowardice)
7. 'Three families' (there are indignities we inflict which could not be earned)
8. 'James, Alison & Gwen' (the many splendours)
9. 'On Camberwell Green' (the pain of previous joy, why we cannot speak to those we have spoken a certain amount with)
10. 'A romance' (the indefatigibility of the voyeur)
11. 'An English rose' (autobiography as personal pornography)
12. 'High' (artists aren't more mad, it's just that working from home lets you be)
13. 'A minor betrayal' (the shock of youth, and youth's generosity)
14. 'Back home' (the awkwardly unfilial, the old skin shed)
15. 'Playing Silly Buggers' (awful youth, boring luxury, exciting responsibility)
16. 'Wine and dine' (the unbearable lightness of customer service)
17. 'Badge' (the powerful relics and total mysticism of childhood)
18. 'After the autumn ball' (the outside view on insides)
19. 'Hate' (the beam in thine own eye)
It contains the sequel to the novella 'Wankers', but has many more wankers in it. Lots and lots of charming Scottish girls as well though. Very close detail of many kinds of sexuality (the swaggering pan, the indifferently repressed, the hateful, the sweet and preconscious, the hopeless, the plugged or extinct volcano).
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