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Greedy Little Eyes (2010)

by Billie Livingston(Favorite Author)
3.9 of 5 Votes: 2
ISBN
0679313249 (ISBN13: 9780679313243)
languge
English
publisher
Vintage Canada
review 1: Livingston, who won The Danuta Gleed award for this gorgeous book, wrote a collection of dark, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes heartbreaking, well-crafted stories. Livingston does not shy away from drama, which I love. So many Canadian stories play it safe, afraid of being ‘too much,’ but not Livingston. She gives you murders and suicide, a mother who abducts her daughter’s friend, and it is never too much. Her writing is witty and honest and intimate and begs to be read again. In fact, I just decided I’m going to read it again like, right now.
review 2: I finished this book last week. And I Loved it. I found some of the stories so raw and personally haunting that I started to reread them already. The writing is straight forward and yet still poeti
... morec. Livingston has a way of phrasing things, describing emotions and situations, that causes me to sit up and yell, "yes! that's exactly what it's like!" I'll be hanging on to my copy. But I know what to get my sister for her birthday now. less
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Jclo
If I could write like Billie Livingston, I'd be a very happy woman.
indiya
Twisted little short stories...I enjoyed this.
okayykk
I want to write stories like this. Wonderful!
iloveyou143
somewhat dark but interesting
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