Love of Fat Men
Registered by rainbow3 of Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom on 9/18/2004
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Recommended by someone else who thought I would really enjoy this.
The Love of Fat Men is a series of short stories some following the same characters but none directly following on from each other. Some how the word story seems severely inaccurate, these feel like selected recorded observations and seem to me to tell as much about the person reading them as they do about the people described. The observation is acute and the narration subtle, reading these I feel inevitability leads to reflection. This writing is so rich and multi-layered it’s foreseeable that your own experience would colour your understanding. One has the feeling you could be looking in a mirror. Not that you see yourself but rather you are getting a picture of the human condition that you identify with. There is an uncomfortably claustrophobic feel to some of the relationships, a sourness to some of the reflection and a sort of hanging cloud of tension almost throughout but yet a light poetic touch makes it all bearable. Definitely not chirpy but a bit amazing, read this if you get a chance! I really loved the Scandinavian emphasis to the life-style and thinking. It reminded me of my Mum, who coming from Orkney, part of Scotland but geographically close to Scandinavia has some of this style.