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From the blind girl who sees more than her parents can, to the portrait artist who sees more than her clients would wish, Robin Black illuminates secret fears, hidden desires, profound grief and enduring love in a collection as rich and varied as the relationships it describes. These are generous and compassionate stories for anyone attuned to the intricate heartbreak of families -- to our power to hurt and to nurture those we love best. 'Full of substance and colour. Many short stories have a habit of evaporating not long after you've read them. Black's have an uncanny tendency to stick around' Metro 'An exploration of secret monologues and private emotions that makes for an illuminating, moving and universally resonant experience' Easy Living 'Exquisitely distilled tales of loss and reckoning' Vogue 'Black writes with grace and simplicity' TLS
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` And Robin Black's If I Loved You, I Would Tell You evokes a Sparkian blend of scepticism and grace in exquisitely distilled tales of loss and reckoning, several of them grounded in relationships between fathers and daughters. Black excels at capturing her characters' dimming sense that things might ever be put right, or as one rather spookily precocious little girl puts it--"that wishes made correctly do come true".' --Vogue.com
'The subtle undercurrents of time passing and the vagaries between what is thought and what is said characterise a collection that feels full of substance and colour. Many short stories have a habit of evaporating not long after you've read them. Black's have an uncanny tendency to stick around.' --Metro
'Love, its losses and gains, its disappointments and joys, may be the staples of most fiction but that doesn't mean it's easier to write about. This debut by American author Robin Black is a genuine, enquiring, and deceptively gentle meander around the things love makes us do, but for all its quietness it is profound. Black's skill lies in her empathy for her characters, her understanding of their pain and anger.' --Herald
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Shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, a beautiful debut collection from a writer with the warmth, reach and complexity of Alice Munro
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- PublisherPicador
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0330511793
- ISBN 13 9780330511797
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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