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Vanilla bright like Eminem / Michel Faber.

by Faber, Michel.

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Harcourt, c2007.

256 p. ; 22 cm.

The safehouse -- Andy comes back -- The eyes of the soul -- Serious swimmers -- Explaining coconuts -- Finesse -- Flesh remains flesh -- Less than perfect -- A hole with two ends -- The smallness of the action -- All black -- Mouse -- Someone to kiss it better -- Beyond pain -- Tabitha Warren -- Vanilla bright like Eminem.

"Michel Faber is not only a master storyteller but a daring innovator as well. Here are the pitch-perfect prose, indelible characterizations, and deep empathy for which he has been highly acclaimed. Here also is a satirical streak that depicts individuals at uncanny and all-too-familiar turning points in their lives. The alienated find sanctuary in "The Safehouse" their histories and diagnoses written like endless ads on their T-shirts. In "Andy Comes Back" a man awakens after a five-year coma, only to flee his home. In "The Eyes of the Soul" perpetual televised beauty replaces the derelict view from a suburban picture window. In "Finesse" a dictator holds his surgeon’s family hostage to the outcome of a risky operation. These sixteen stories move from unspeakable sadness through moments of exquisitely distilled happiness."--Harcourt.

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