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"VALENTINE'S DAY MAKES ME EMBARRASSED," writes Janice Galloway in the opening lines of Where You Find It. The collection deals with love in its many guises -- the way relationships suddenly turn; how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt. Love in Galloway's world is more likely to resemble a heart-shaped ham sandwich than the flowers and chocolates that bear the standard in more traditional "love stories." In the manner of Lorrie Moore and Raymond Carver, Galloway's tales explore the psychological aspects of love and the overpowering yearning to communicate. Whether it's the title piece, which tells of a prostitute's passion for her pimp's kisses, or "Valentine," in which a celebratory evening is undermined by minor disappointments and misunderstandings, the stories that comprise Where You Find It assume that powerful feelings always contain a dimension of disturbance. Upon the collection's much-lauded publication in the United Kingdom, one reviewer was moved to predict that Janice Galloway "will certainly end up in anthologies: not Best Scottish Writers or Best Women Writers, but, quite simply, best."

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"The Times Literary Supplement" (London)

Janice Galloway is a poet of uneasy intimacies.

"The Daily Telegraph" (London)

Galloway has the all-important gift of knowing when her stories end, and lethally accurate powers of observation.

"The Sunday Times" (London)

Galloway...shows once more her skill at exposing the pretensions of macho language...lead[ing] into an assured prose of menace and a world made uncanny.

"The Independent"

Galloway's narrators inevitably wear their central nervous system on the outside and heap detail upon felt detail with a vividness that is either hallucinatory or nightmarish and always unforgettable.

"The Big Issue" (London)

Tactile and unfussy, these yarns come over like some north-of-the-border Raymond Carver -- brilliantly catching the tiny triumphs, big decisions and bumping let-downs of an assortment of everyday, flesh-and-blood protagonists....A beautifully wrought gem.

"The Independent" Galloway's narrators inevitably wear their central nervous system on the outside and heap detail upon felt detail with a vividness that is either hallucinatory or nightmarish and always unforgettable.

"The Sunday Times" (London) Galloway...shows once more her skill at exposing the pretensions of macho language...lead[ing] into an assured prose of menace and a world made uncanny.

"The Times Literary Supplement" (London) Janice Galloway is a poet of uneasy intimacies.

"The List" (Glasgow and Edinburgh) "Where You Find It" is an achingly caustic and beautifully prickly read of twenty finely honed and disturbingly powerful stories.

"The Daily Telegraph" (London) Galloway has the all-important gift of knowing when her stories end, and lethally accurate powers of observation.

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'Galloway's subject is love in all its quirky triumphs and sneaky defeats. Where You Find It confirms the originality and skill which wins her awards...Galloway has the all-important gift of knowing when her stories end, and lethally accurate powers of observation'
-Judy Cooke, Daily Telegraph

'The writing can be felt on your pulses. Galloway is a literary endoscopist. She gets beneath the surface of life and exposes the nerves'
-Georgina Brown, Independent

'She is a quite brilliant observer of the way relationships suddenly turn, of how a look, a gesture, a word can heal or hurt'
-Anthony Quinn, Harpers & Queen

'Fuses a nerve-exposing honesty with deep compassion'
-Gavin Wallace, Scotsman

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  • PublisherSimon & Schuster
  • Publication date2007
  • ISBN 10 1416578420
  • ISBN 13 9781416578420
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages244
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