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This is not a love song: stories

✍ Scribed by Brendan Mathews

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Year: 2019
Tongue: English
Weight: 149 KB
Edition: First edition
Category: Fiction
City: New York Little, Brown and Company February 2019
ISBN-13: 9782018952120

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

A debut collection of moving and darkly witty stories from an "admirably fearless" (New York Times Book Review) writer whom critics have compared to Michael Chabon, E.L. Doctorow, and Dennis Lehane

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When marriages, friendships, and families come undone, to what lengths do we go to keep it all together? That question lies at the heart of Brendan Mathews's buoyant and unforgettable debut story collection. A young mother watches as her desperate husband, convinced a hidden poison lurks inside their walls, tears their home apart. Two journalists bruised by romance and revolution, one a survivor of the Bosnian war, trade tales of lost lovers. A father and his sons haggle over the family business during a high-stakes round of golf. And a lovesick circus clown tries to explain the accidents that bound him to a trapeze artist and a witless lion tamer.

If Mathews's novel The World of Tomorrow was an "outsized" entertainment, a "big, expressive...

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