Bad News of the Heart (Canadian Literature) by Douglas Glover

Bad News of the Heart (Canadian Literature) Reviews

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  Erik F.

  Glover is like a darker, sadder, naughtier version of George Saunders. If that sounds appealing to you, then you really should get your hands on this collection at some point. Don't let my ambiguous 3-star rating discourage you; he really is a talented writer, and the majority of these odd stories are definitely worth reading.
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  Robert Wechsler

  Douglas Glover’s story collection consists of twelve unusual, mostly painful, first-person narratives about lots of things, but especially about love that doesn’t work or even happen. The stories’ rhythms arise from voices trying to come to grips with what cannot be understood or even described. The stories are better in retrospect than they are while experiencing them, by which I don’t mean that they’re hard to read, only that they’re difficult to take. It’s not easy listening to the painful monologues of people who fail at love and/or are surrounded by such failures on the part of others. Others, yes. These others aren’t what others are supposed to be, not what we want them to be. But then neither are we. A 4.5.
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  Cheryl

  These stories are recycled from previous collections. Seven stories were in
  16 Categories of Desire and four were in
  A Guide to Animal Behaviour.
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  Adrianne Mathiowetz

  I loved this book but I absolutely never want to read it again.
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  Ben Rameaka

  A hit or miss collection of eclectic stories. Worth a read during a morning train ride.