(EPUB) [Beneath the Earth]

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• Beneath the Earth
• John Boyne
• English
• 23 October 2020
• 9781473526174

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review Ô PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Ñ John Boyne John Boyne Ñ 6 download Beneath the Earth free read ´ 6 Hitman – Boyne examines the hopeful and the damaged without prejudice or judgementThis his first collection of short stories is some of John Boyne’s finest writing to date It includes ‘Rest Day’ which won the 2015 Writingie Short Story of the Year award in Irelan. While the collection is seeming aimed at showing beneath the surface many of the stories seem to arrive to the same end point illustrating the subject s detachment rather than probing the causes Perhaps the nature of a short story doesn t allow the deeper delving into the darker topics beneath t he surface That said it s a strong collection first and last stories along with a couple of others really had me wanting them to be just prologues

review Ô PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Ñ John Boyne John Boyne Ñ 6 download Beneath the Earth free read ´ 6 In this collection of twelve dark unerring and surprising short stories John Boyne explores the extremities of the human condition in all its brilliance and brutality The secrets we keep and the ways in which they shape us the impossibility of shared loss the lengths we w. This is a book of twelve shorts stories and I read this book in two days And that is going some as I am a slow reader but loved it so much I just couldn t stop readingThe themes are interesting mysterious and dark and one of them even written in the second person You don t come across that every dayThis is the first John Boyne book I have read and have noted Must read of his Great stuff recommended

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review Ô PDF, eBook or Kindle ePUB Ñ John Boyne John Boyne Ñ 6 download Beneath the Earth free read ´ 6 Ill go to in order to protect our families and the distance we will run to protect ourselvesDrawing on a host of enthralling characters – a farmer a cuckold and a teenager exploring his sexuality; good parents bad parents writers and soldiers; a student a rent boy and a. What with Mr Boyne being uite inept when it comes to writing bad books this selection of shorter works is great We start with a boy from a modern sort of broken home becoming a rent boy and are reminded of how he does like to tubthump about homosexuality a bit too much but the results still work Less successful is a debate about Ireland being neutral in WWI before a hilarious look at two different men who used to be friends as children but who have both dabbled in writing since It s hilarious yet also one of the bitterest things you ll ever turn to Agatha Christie on holiday isn t terribly interesting however a misstep The fifth piece has a nicely youthful collouialism about it meaning that when it looks at a certain fallout of being outed at school it smacks of plausibility even if probably its unreliable narrator is less unreliable than his fellow characters might have it Elsewhere we gain from a soldier s restless mind on what was supposed to be a Christmastime day off a very funny vignette almost about a student registering at university a grieving travel writer a contract killer gay schoolboys and er the closing misogynistWhat surprised me most was the humour not a thing that s spread lavishly across the pages of his novels What didn t surprise me was the amount of masturbation and lots of allusions and aspersions to other things which or less are But the short stories here do or less fit into his career output historical at times gay inflected at times both at times and always rather nicely full of character mature incident and insight You d probably not gift this to your local vicar but for a certain liberal taste these works are fine indeed