Name: The Emerald Light in the Air
ISBN: 9781847086495

Donald Antrim

A devastatingly funny, achingly tender short story collection. An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments.

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The Emerald Light in the Air

A latest collection by the author of Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World features protagonists who search for community and confront the dysfunctional aspects of their characters throughout everyday occurrences.

Will Vunderink

The over-medicated, immature Manhattanites who populate these stories blend into one another a bit too much, but the collection was worth it for "Another Manhattan" alone, which is easily one of the best short stories I've ever read.

Gary Homewood

Correlated stories of first world disaffection, medicated psychology, counter-productive nostalgia for failed relationships and attempted families. Filmically detailed, contemporary and darkly comic, though the narrow, privileged world view can be a bit tiresome.

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