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The Reasons I Won't Be Coming

By Elliot Perlman

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| Paperback | 9781594482236

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A collection of nine stories, full of passion and intelligence, from the author of the national bestseller Seven Types of Ambiguity.

The nine smart, thoughtful stories in this collection explore the complex worlds of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and murderers. They tContinue

A collection of nine stories, full of passion and intelligence, from the author of the national bestseller Seven Types of Ambiguity.

The nine smart, thoughtful stories in this collection explore the complex worlds of lovers, poets, lawyers, immigrants, students, and murderers. They tell of corporate betrayals and lost opportunities, and the hopes, fears, and vagaries of desire. Witty, vulnerable, and honest, they display the same preoccupations that made Perlman's novel, Seven Types of Ambiguity, one of the most notable literary publications of 2004.

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  • Let's kill all the lawyers

    The Reasons I Won't Be Coming Elliot Perlman Faber, £9.99, pp314 Buy it at BOL Having enjoyed critical success with his first novel, Three Dollars, Elliot Perlman has followed it up with a collection of short stories. The nine here vary in length or ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Multiple Personalities

    THESE days, a short-story collection can seem like a feeble anomaly if it doesn't aspire to be a novel: some coherence is expected. Recent collections by David Means (variations on violence) and David Bezmozgis (variations on exile) have had a singul ... (read full critics)

    nytimes published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 336 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 1594482233
  • ISBN-13: 9781594482236
  • Publisher: Riverhead Trade
  • Pub date: Dec 05, 2006
  • Dimensions: 1290 mm x 774 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover
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