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5.0
Reading Rob Roberge is like going to look at lithographs by Robert Riggs -- you know it's going to hurt, you know there's going to be some pain, and someone always bleeds yet won't shirk away from being hit. It's a tremendous collection with men who know their lives are slowly circling down, but they're going down with a shout and a swing. Roberge uses a NBA metaphor in the book and it's interesting because it's about men who play through pain. But I don't think of these men as losers. These are fragile beings. Men who want to be "men" but have too much insight into their own frailities and weaknesses. The stories contain what makes good fiction good: they are sad and funny and profoundly moving all at the same time. Give it a read.
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