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5.0
The Weird and the Wonderful YouTube show has a brief overview of A Book of Bargains here. O'Sullivan had not been on my radar before, but this is an exciting collection of stories.
O'Sullivan's bargains naturally have their hidden costs. Sometimes they are hidden from protagonists, sometimes by them.
In the world of O'Sullivan' characters, payoffs are always steep. Some succumb in the pitiless steel mesh of personal logic or social consequence. Others race toward suicide like it's the last plane out.
A Book of Bargains gives us a look at various insiders, outsiders, successes, failures, and those lumpen figures who've simply fallen off the bottom rung of class society. The stories are bleak, brief, and direct in their evocation of life in its febrile succulence.
Full: http://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-book-of-bargains-by-vincent-osullivan.html?m=1
O'Sullivan's bargains naturally have their hidden costs. Sometimes they are hidden from protagonists, sometimes by them.
In the world of O'Sullivan' characters, payoffs are always steep. Some succumb in the pitiless steel mesh of personal logic or social consequence. Others race toward suicide like it's the last plane out.
A Book of Bargains gives us a look at various insiders, outsiders, successes, failures, and those lumpen figures who've simply fallen off the bottom rung of class society. The stories are bleak, brief, and direct in their evocation of life in its febrile succulence.
Full: http://jayrothermel.blogspot.com/2021/04/a-book-of-bargains-by-vincent-osullivan.html?m=1
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