My Life In Heavy Metal by Steve Almond
This collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties: their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities. The stories have a wide range, but they are nevertheless all at some level explorations of modern masculinity.
The short story is here to stay, even if publishers complain that 'they don't sell', and Almond's is a good example of a short story collection which should sellRather than go for the box of tricks 'look at my range' approach to short stories in his debut, there is one (albeit broad) theme running throughout: sexual relationships. And being a young, educated, American male, Almond concentrates for the most part on the passions, foibles and confusions of his contemporaries. Commercial stories with a literary underside, whose flavour is best brought out by lines like the following in the tale of a young democrat's lust for a republican woman: She vamped gamely even as her eyelids drooped, licked her lovely incisor and urged me forward. How could it possibly matter that she was against gun control?
Steve Almond's fiction has appeared in Missouri Review, Playboy, Southern Review, and Zoetrope- All-Story. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780434010011 |
| ISBN 10 | 0434010014 |
| Title | My Life In Heavy Metal |
| Author | Steve Almond |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2002-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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