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My Life in Heavy Metal

My Life in Heavy Metal

by SteveAlmond (Author)

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    Hardcover 2002

    $8.33

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    Paperback 2003

    $10.88
Synopsis

This collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties: their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities. The stories have a wide range, but they are nevertheless all at some level explorations of modern masculinity.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 288
 Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 01 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0434010014
ISBN 13: 9780434010011
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Media Reviews
The short story is here to stay, even if publishers complain that 'they don't sell', and Almond's is a good example of a short story collection which should sell. Rather than go for the box of tricks 'look at my range' approach to short stories in his debut, there is one (albeit broad) theme running throughout: sexual relationships. And being a young, educated, American male, Almond concentrates for the most part on the passions, foibles and confusions of his contemporaries. Commercial stories with a literary underside, whose flavour is best brought out by lines like the following in the tale of a young democrat's lust for a republican woman: She vamped gamely even as her eyelids drooped, licked her lovely incisor and urged me forward. How could it possibly matter that she was against gun control?
Author Bio
Steve Almond's fiction has appeared in Missouri Review, Playboy, Southern Review, and Zoetrope- All-Story. He lives in Somerville, Massachusetts.