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The Weight Of A Human Heart: Stories (2013)

by Ryan O'Neill(Favorite Author)

3.94 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

1250024994 (ISBN13: 9781250024992)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: This is the first book of short stories I've read and loved it. Each story was engaging and well ended, a problem I've had with short stories in the past. O'Neill puts his characters all over the world, but the stories set in Rwanda are particularly moving. And the relationships that O'Neill is able to develop in 10 pages have the depth of much longer stories - his use of language is both descriptive and concise in a way that brings you into the story immediately and holds you with an emotional attachment (whether good or bad...) to a character until the end.
review 2: The short stories were way to existential for my taste, I read about half of them. The author seems opposed to giving the reader any hope in life, all seems to be for vain. There is no glimmer ... moreof hope, no morsel of happiness, each story is a different view on the hopelessness of existence. My personal experience is that life has joys and sufferings, there is always room for hope. Perhaps the author finds it entertaining to paint such a dark picture story after story. I would rather spend my energies reading other literature. Two stars is all I can give this book. less

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