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An extraordinary book that finds its truths and lyricism in lives that seem to offer almost nothing. The stories are peopled by the clinically obese, retards, workers in dead-end jobs, the lonely, the handicapped. What saves them is love, or the possibility of it, of crumbs from the table. Most of the stories deal with gay men or boys, but that should exclude no one from their power and, often, humour. I was touched and amused, and deeply impressed, by Banner's capacity to make the world he desc
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I've read this collection twice since it came out. Banner is an outstanding talent, too little recognized. The stories are dark and funny, disturbing and moving, about people one rarely comes across in literary fiction.
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Jun 13, 2008
Stewart
marked it as to-read
Feb 15, 2010
Beamish13
marked it as to-read
