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Damage Control: Stories (2013)

by Amber Dermont(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0312642814 (ISBN13: 9780312642815)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: Dermont's stories are consistently entertaining. Personally, I liked the bizarre elements in each story and I thought Dermont did a good job of making them believable. Without the odd pairings of people and situations, her stories would lose a lot of the allure for me. She packs her stories full of so much detail that I felt "short" is something of a misnomer given her ability to stretch my imagination and introduce me to novel situations.
review 2: Ms. Dermont is at her finest when she write about heartbreak and loss, themes that are often maudlin or overly-dramatic in the hands of lesser contemporary authors. In stories like "Sorry, You Are Not a Winner," "Number One Tuna," and the title story, the protagonists feel every bit of pain that the loss of a belove... mored father, a lover, and even the loss of a life of privilege realistically inflict upon us, but the pain is wrapped in cotton, more of a low throb than a heart-wrenching life-stopper. Still, the dulling of the pain makes it all the more real, all the more pervasive and true, all the more worth the emotional investment. less

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