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Don't pick this book if you want a nice cosy mood-enhancing read. The stories are brilliant, but the characters are mostly nasty to each other in one way or another and I don't think there's a single happy ending in the collection, except possibly the last ... possibly - if you have a very open definition of 'happy'. Most of them are sad tales of people doing their worst for each other, mostly on purpose, occasionally accidentally - which just makes it more painful. There's very little remorse o
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These are not happy stories, and some the ending knocked me over, emotionally. There are a lot of mothers here with disappointing sons, and a few fathers who think their children (or children-in-law) are disappointing. Everyone who deserves it (and some who don't) get at least some of their due, sometimes viciously.
The title of the collection is apt for all the stories, though it's the titular story that gives us the sense of the title's meaning. In every story, someone (or a group, like black p ...more
The title of the collection is apt for all the stories, though it's the titular story that gives us the sense of the title's meaning. In every story, someone (or a group, like black p ...more
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