The reasons I won't be coming - Softcover

Elliot Perlman

9780330361613: The reasons I won't be coming

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ISBN 10: 0330361619 ISBN 13: 9780330361613

Publisher: Picador / Pan Macmillan Australia, 1999

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The 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 of the obsessions, hopes, fears, and vagaries of desire.

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Review

Perlman writes fiction with muscle. ("People")

By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant. ("Newsday")

Invigorating stories...enlivened by Perlman's intelligence, verbal energy, and mischievous wit. ("Entertainment Weekly")

Impressive...carefully imagined, entirely believable...[Perlman] manages to pack whole lives into few paragraphs. ("New York Times Book Review")

"Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman''s intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit." - Entertainment Weekly
"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant." - Newsday
"Fans of Perlman''s grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping ''big questions'' of modern life won''t be disappointed." - Elle
"Perlman writes fiction with muscle." - People
"The nine tales here don''t just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original." - New York Post

"Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman's intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit." - Entertainment Weekly
"By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant." - Newsday
"Fans of Perlman's grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping 'big questions' of modern life won't be disappointed." - Elle
"Perlman writes fiction with muscle." - People
"The nine tales here don't just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original." - New York Post

-Invigorating stories...enlived by Perlman's intelligence, verbal engergy, and mischevious wit.- - Entertainment Weekly
-By turns hilarious and heartbreaking...Stunning...Brilliant.- - Newsday
-Fans of Perlman's grapplings with both the minutiae and the sweeping 'big questions' of modern life won't be disappointed.- - Elle
-Perlman writes fiction with muscle.- - People
-The nine tales here don't just suggest an emerging voice, they show it well developed, stretching and flexing...Marvelously realized, evocative and utterly original.- - New York Post

About the Author

Elliot Perlman was born in Australia. He is the author of the short-story collection The Reasons I Won't Be Coming, which won the Betty Trask Award (UK) and the Fellowship of Australian Writers Book of the Year Award. Riverhead Books will publish this collection in 2005.

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