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Love And Obstacles (2008)

by Aleksandar Hemon(Favorite Author)

3.82 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1594488649 (ISBN13: 9781594488641)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Riverhead Hardcover

review 1: This was my first experience reading anything by Hemon, and it was powerful. He is a masterful writer, a gripping storyteller. The experience left me a little dazed and a lot humbled at the prospect of writing anything. His last story about his own experience meeting a prize-winning writer left me feeling hopeful rather than wistful. If you don't read "Love and Obstacles" in its entirety (the first story is particularly rough), at least read "American Commando." It is classic.
review 2: “Love and Obstacles” is one odd duck of a book. But I couldn’t put it down. Aleksandar Hemon lives and writes in Chicago, but is originally from Bosnia. My favorite in this collection is “Good Living” about his hilarious quirky travails selling magazine subscriptions i... moren Chicago suburbs: “I shamelessly exploited any smidgen of pity I could detect in lonely housewives and grumpy retirees whose doors I knocked at.” less

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