Sweets and Toxins [Paperback]

The twenty-first century doesnt much care for subtlety. Now is the era of the gist, the elevator pitch, the big idea boiled down. This is precisely why Christopher Woodalls fiction gives such pleasure. His meticulous stories about love, death, fidelity, friendship, and human solitude do not wave their narrative arms wildly, demanding unwarranted attention. They speak in a calm voice, inviting the reader closerinviting him not merely to react but to feel and think.Sweets and Toxinsis the first collection of short fiction to be published by this talented novelist (November) and it marks him as a writer whose sharp eye for detail and feeling for people is a rare commodity indeed. He is one of the major English authors writing today.- This is a book to read alongside the work of Ben Lerner and Jenny Erpenbeck.?
The novelwhose sequel is in processis reminiscent at points of Jean Eustaches 1973 film The Mother and the Whore: complex, deep, and seemingly unending. A selection of twelve of short stories about love, death, fidelity, friendship, and human solitude.- A remarkable debut collection of short stories by novelist Woodall (November). These stories are about sex, relationships, and above all the power struggles between partners, family members, and friends.?