Heavenly Date and Other Flirtations
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 7/31/2011
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Synopsis (Credit: www.goodreads.com)
In these hilarious stories of perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters, we are enthralled, saddened, inspired, and surprised by the encounters we're made privy to. Alexander McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements that human beings engineer for themselves -- entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, compulsive, complicated, and, sometimes, completely disastrous.
This is an exceptional collection of stories from an author whose wide audience delights in his extraordinary imagination and delicious insights into the endlessly fascinating peculiarities of the human condition.
(Bought new at Exclusive Books sale, Tyger Valley, Bellville.)
In these hilarious stories of perverse meetings, casual dates, and romantic encounters, we are enthralled, saddened, inspired, and surprised by the encounters we're made privy to. Alexander McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements that human beings engineer for themselves -- entanglements that can be shocking, edifying, compulsive, complicated, and, sometimes, completely disastrous.
This is an exceptional collection of stories from an author whose wide audience delights in his extraordinary imagination and delicious insights into the endlessly fascinating peculiarities of the human condition.
(Bought new at Exclusive Books sale, Tyger Valley, Bellville.)
This collection of short stories may not appeal to all McCall Smith's usual readers but to me it certainly served to underline his mastery. I thoroughly enjoyed reading the book.
Three things are clear:
- He knows how to tell a story.
- There is nothing wrong with his imagination.
- He manages to place one in the shoes of his characters in an uncanny way. You may not agree with what they get up to, but you certainly get a better understanding of the way they think and feel. The end result is that his characters are convincing and real, and the reader isn't given the option to remain an unconcerned observer.
Three things are clear:
- He knows how to tell a story.
- There is nothing wrong with his imagination.
- He manages to place one in the shoes of his characters in an uncanny way. You may not agree with what they get up to, but you certainly get a better understanding of the way they think and feel. The end result is that his characters are convincing and real, and the reader isn't given the option to remain an unconcerned observer.
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at The Fox and Vixen, Kloof St in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Saturday, October 29, 2011
Released 12 yrs ago (10/29/2011 UTC) at The Fox and Vixen, Kloof St in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
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