Cowards: A Novel

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And just who are the cowards? Although Skvorecky has written half a dozen novels that I like more than the Cowards, it still has tremendous merits. Nothing is more dangerous for civilians than a retreat which involves a moving front. The retreating army is nervous and trigger happy which results in civilian deaths. The advancing army is also scared and armed which means that civilians get killed.

Individuals on both sides of the conflict use the confusion to settle scores. In the Cowards, Skvorecky looks at one type of the n Although Skvorecky has written half a dozen novels that I like more than the Cowards, it still has tremendous merits. In the Cowards, Skvorecky looks at one type of the nastiness; the that of civilians who realize that a retreating army will not be around to retaliate against their relatives if they decide to start taking pot shots at their departing occupiers. Skvorecky lived through such a retreat and writes a fabulous account of it.

I can think of other treatments about life on a rapidly moving front. Roberto Rossellini's Open City is one. Open City is a term from the middle ages which refers to the situation when the occupier or previous government has left a city open to the invader. A dangerous state of lawlessness exists because there is no authority to enforce law.

Rossellini's movies examines the cruelties committed by the fascists in Rome which became an open city on August 14, Skvorecky addresses the gratuitous crimes that the "cowards" of Kostelec commit against the members of the retreating army. You need both Skvorecky and Rossellini to see the whole picture. My favourite treatment of the "open city" topic is Puccini's opera Tosca in which Scarpia the police chief of the royal regime kills Tosca the soprano and Cavardossi the painter in an act of pure spite as the royal forces vacate Rome while Napoleon's army approaches. Read Skvorecky's Cowards then make a trip to the opera to see Tosca.

You will regret neither. Jul 03, Lorenzo Berardi rated it liked it Shelves: Oh well, it seems like after being done with Czechoslovakia as seen by Marius S. I had to go straight to a Czech novel wrote by an author mentioned several times in Gottland. But this is just a coincidence.

For The Cowards was already with me for a few months. This novel is written in a very impulsive and passionate style with that sort of boyish impetuosity which is explained by the fact Skvorecky was only 24 when he delivered it. The fact that it took 12 years more for this novel to get publishe Oh well, it seems like after being done with Czechoslovakia as seen by Marius S.

The fact that it took 12 years more for this novel to get published just in time for being immediately banned takes us back to what Czechoslovakia used to be: And perhaps reassured by the fact that a plane couldn't fall over Prague, Josef Skvorecky himself fled to Canada in the early s leaving his homecountry behind. This decision he took was not an act of cowardice but in fact quite the opposite. While abroad, Skvorecky became a publisher of Czechoslovakian books banned by the communit regime and an opinion leader for all the Czech and Slovakian dissidents and ex-pats.

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He kept on writing novels too. That said, who are The Cowards here? Jazz music and Satchmo Armstrong for them may certainly look like mere escapism from the daily trouble of a Nazi occupation but are also a sort of moral and cultural resistance to any restriction given by the occupants. Danny and his band are waiting for something to happen in their sleepy Bohemian town, but at the same time they wish to take part in that something which many around them call "the Revolution".

Perhaps the cowards are the German forces running away from Bohemia when hearing about the Russians advancing from eastern front?

Or maybe these cowards are the local "revolutionary people" jumping out of the frying pan to fall into fire without even noticing it? And what about the Russians looting a whole country that addressed them as liberators? Personally, I think that Skvorecky left this question unanswered on purpose. As for him, the Nazi occupation, the "socialist" liberation and the institution of a communist regime are all farce wrapped up in different flags, uniforms and anthems.

The reason why it took me that long to review this book is very easy: And I cannot really say why it took that long as this novel deals with topics I was interested in. It could be that The Cowards insists a bit too much on dialogues among its characters rather than going straight to the point and this led me to get distracted quite often.

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Borrowing a jazzy metaphor, I would say that Skvorecky played a notable jam session of a book, but could have made it even better with less solos from its favourite instruments. Nevertheless, this novel deserves to be recorded.

And I will come back to its tracks. Jan 16, Jonathan Norton rated it liked it. Young people at the edge of history. A week in May Hitler is dead, the war is winding down, so it's last chance to be a hero, at comparatively low risk, as the Germans are exhausted and just want to get home. We see how occupations end, with the collaborators hastily trying to reinvent themselves as resisters, apprehensive about whether the communists or the old regime will assert themselves afterwards. Meanwhile Danny is just as obsessed with sex and fantasies of ideal women, immature ide Young people at the edge of history.

Meanwhile Danny is just as obsessed with sex and fantasies of ideal women, immature ideas about girls as pliant playmates. The word "teenager" hadn't even been coined in the West at this point, but this is a book about youth and the possibilities of youth culture, excited by its own music and references jazz, not rock'n'roll at this time, but quite as exotic in provincial Bohemia , desperate to get away to the capital and explore a wider world.

In some ways this is a weird mirror image of western Youth Rebellion and even punk fiction, from an alternative angle of boys who really are bumping up against the Nazis, instead of longing for a battlefield 30 years later. And it shows they are just as immature as the later generations. This book was criticised for " betraying the heroism of Czechs in the war" by the communist regime. Well, most people are not heroes.

This is warm,as well as cynical, funny as well as sad, the experience of a small Czech town at the end of WW2. AN experience many Europeans had. It is a war book with a difference. Dec 31, Rob Ward rated it really liked it. Czech edition I stalled on this book for a long time. I think it fell between stools since I wasn't quite reading it purely for pleasure I started out reading the Czech and English translation beside each other to see exactly what tack the translator had taken in dealing with the various ways the two languages differ , and neither was I reading it for an particular project I was working on.

It tended consistently to lose out to other books I was reading at the time, both Czech and English. For Czech edition I stalled on this book for a long time. For that reason I can't easily judge it. What I would say that it is one of those books that will stay with me for a long time, though it was pretty consistently put-downable. This is not such an unenviable category as it might sound. If we are to run with the divide of good bad books and bad good books, then we can agree that the bad good book is one which attempts to take on themes with some literary and philosophical heft and one which fails on its own terms, while also failing on the terms of the good bad book, that is, readability, pace, having a story that pulls you in and has you identifying with the characters and their struggles.

But there are good good books which fail to some degree in terms of the story telling punch of the best of the bad books, but which nonetheless cover the bases of the literary terrain, and stay with you for that, even if they don't tempt you back over and over as, to use one of Orwell's cases, a good Sherlock Holmes story might. Skvorecky's Danny Smiricky novels and stories are autobiographical, and they read as being verbatim memories. Literary dialogue, and perhaps still more literary stream of consciousness passages, tend to be selective, distilled.

Dialogue we remember as being the most realistic is often, if we read it closely, the most stripped down, having been ridded of the many redundancies of speech. In The Cowards, we come to know Danny's thoughts very closely. We come to know him very well, because we live in his thoughts. His thoughts resemble our own in all their muddle and repetition. If we hear him mention Irena in a swimsuit once, we hear it a hundred times. If we hear him talk about how silly she is but that it doesn't matter, or how he loves her, but then again, he couldn't love anybody, we hear it again and again.

Danny is an ordinary young lad, romantically inclined, and possessed by a passion for jazz.

His second passion, for Irena, is more ambivalent, intermittent, but equally ever-present. He is caught up in a unique and dangerous period of history, in the end of the Nazi Protectorate of Czechoslovakia. We might have some presumptions of what this does, or should mean. We might be right in some ways. In others less so. For Danny, much of life and most of his thoughts continue to relate to his two passions.

Still, we are to inhabit his head and hear his thoughts as he involves himself as deeply as he is able, in some of the most significant events of the history of Europe. Even if I often felt that these events were evoked in passages so stunningly real that I should have been drawn back to the book much more often than I in fact was, many of them will stay with me. Similarly, though I was regularly riled by Danny and the repetitive nature of his thoughts, I associated with many of them, both in terms of their being a realistic depiction of how I used to think when I was a younger man than I am now, and, how I sometimes still feel now.

Ultimately, if Britain or Prague or wherever I was living at the time were to be invaded and I were to be a witness or an actor in the events that unfolded, I know many of my thoughts would revolve around my own few passions in the same way as do Danny's here, and that the invasion force would struggle to take my attention.

That's why it's a good good book. I'm just glad it will stay with me long enough that I won't need to reread it any time soon. May 15, Marti Martinson rated it really liked it.

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The author provided his very own Preface, or Forward, so I will not even begin to dissect this book on a formal or ontological level. I will only say that the characters, the dialogue, and the situations drove me to such deep care that I was dreading an horrific demise of the main character of Danny. His fascination with getting a sub-machine gun this was the ending of WW2 drove me crazy; I knew something bad would happen.

Luckily, it did not but I won't say more than that. Danny, to me, was not self-absorbed nor self-centered but just self-aware. He knew he only had time and affections for "jazz and girls". Would that our so called world "leaders" kept to these topics I whole heartedly recommend this book. Only Nabokov's "Invitation to a Beheading" gets 5 from me.

Nov 23, Jitka Prokop rated it really liked it. Oct 17, Danielle rated it really liked it. An interesting inside look at an ordinary town in German-occupied Czechoslovakia at a time when the Germans were going out and the Russians were coming in.

From the point of view of a selfish, narcissistic something kid who sees the war as another layer of annoyance on top of daily life. I liked this book because it told the WWII story through the eyes of a nobody, not a hero and not really a victim - at least not in the sense that so many others were. The townspeople treat the war as somethi An interesting inside look at an ordinary town in German-occupied Czechoslovakia at a time when the Germans were going out and the Russians were coming in.

The townspeople treat the war as something that was happening to them, not something they were directly involved with - despite the German takeover of their town and factory that employed many of its residents. The failure of the "resistance" to really care or rise to the occasion is an evident point the author makes and seems to take the stance that the Czech people chose to be indifferent, sit indoors, and wait out the occupation.

In reality this is not entirely true but remains a great criticism of the Czechs at that time. Oct 25, Blake rated it really liked it Shelves: The reviews here are so eloquent. This took me a while to read. Perhaps that the thought that was in my head the most is that when Danny, the protagonist, declares that his life and his Jazz would go on.

Little does he know what the future has in store for him. I don't know if jazz was banned, but it being such an American icon, I can't imagine the Communists leaders would have appr The reviews here are so eloquent. I don't know if jazz was banned, but it being such an American icon, I can't imagine the Communists leaders would have approved of it. So, was Danny able to continue playing his saxophone?

Written in , I doubt the author knew. Nov 02, ErnstG rated it really liked it. I loved this novel. Reading it felt like being sung to very softly. It has such a striking voice, the present tense; the Welsh dialect; the impressively successful use of 'may's and 'might's all working together to conjure a convincing world and a fascinating tapestry of stories.

The characters are wonderful and their stories, told by the beggar Ianto Jenkins, make us question the way we see people and remember that they all have stories to make them who they are. The Coward's Tale is a story abo I loved this novel. The Coward's Tale is a story about stories, capturing the spirit of the folk-tale and bathing it the detail allowed by good writing.

Dec 31, Shannon rated it it was amazing. If you would know why people are as they are, and why we must have kindness for ourselves and each other, read this book. It is profoundly good and satisfying. Vanessa Gebbie is the rare novelist who is as well a poet and philosopher. She tells her characters' stories with a natural lyricism and so vividly that although they are set in a small mining town in Wales, you will picture yourself among them, and of them.

I can think of no better book to close my reading year than this one. Dois anos desde que ele chegou por aqui, o desafio finalmente fez com que eu desse prioridade a ele o que mais uma vez demonstra porque gosto tanto de cumprir esse tipo de desafio…. Aug 03, Sarah rated it it was amazing. Pitch-perfect in its voices, warm and real in its characters, full of tender observation and generosity, this is a tale to take to your heart and hold there.

Gebbie returns to her roots in Wales to weave this rare magic, conjuring a sense of place and time and people, which turns on its head the popular myth that Wales has no Great Writer in this modern age. It has, and it's her. In case you imagine you're in for a deathly serious literary saga, relax. It's funny, and kind, and genuinely enjoyab Pitch-perfect in its voices, warm and real in its characters, full of tender observation and generosity, this is a tale to take to your heart and hold there. It's funny, and kind, and genuinely enjoyable and rewarding to read.

Parallels have been drawn elsewhere with Dylan Thomas and others, but Gebbie is a true original - you won't read another novel like this one, no matter how you search. That alone earns it a place in literary history. Nov 07, MattandCathy Brandley rated it it was amazing.

Sentimental maybe, but perfectly pitched. How events falling away from living memory can still have the power to shape the present and even the future. How we are so trapped within ourselves and yet have so much power to impact others in ways we may never know or see.

The voice of Ianto was strong all the way though, dipped lightly in Welsh dialect and warmth. I read most of it with a very clear Welsh-accented head-voice, which was wonderful. The stories Ianto tells are all about the descendants of an old Welsh community, and how their problems, mysteries, pains, joys, fears and weaknesses are all somehow linked to a tragic coal mining accident three generations before. My only criticisms of this novel is the strange use of future? I also felt that some stories were too rushed, and some a little repetitive.

Jul 14, Max Read rated it it was amazing. She is a journalist and short story writer and also teaches creative writing. It is a well written compendium of chapters set out as short stories that form a continuum. The plot is set in the mining country of southern Wales and is a collection of tales that are told though reminisces of the town beggar, Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins. The collected stories tell the history of the town and trace three generations of townspeople; fathers, sons, daughters, wives and husbands all affected by the accident at the Kindly Light mine that claimed eighty five lives.

For Ianto life begins each day on the stone bench on the porch of an unused chapel where he emerges daily to exchange his tales for food and coffee. As a young boy of only twelve, Ianto was forced to join the other coal miners at the Kindly Light mine when his father became too sick to work. On only his third day an explosion in the mine claimed the lives of a significant number of the miners, leaving Ianto to survive.

Beset by superstitions long plied by the miners, Ianto announces he is a coward and that the tragedy was his entire fault and hence becomes the scapegoat for all the emotional horrors of the townsfolk. Now, as an old man in the sunset of his years, Ianto personifies a life spent in penance for his perceived weakness, the cause of the tragedy; however arguable that there was no causality to the events as they happened. The stories told are inspired by the friendship between Ianto and Laddy Merridew, a red-haired nine-year-old who has just come to live with his grandmother.

I am a coward. I would rate it memorable. I loved this book. I bought it because I had met Vanessa at some do I can't remember now, but also heard her talk about writing and that her publisher's had bought the rights to the book before she had finished it. But I had not yet taken the plunge; not invested my time. I bought a copy and started reading and thought, mmm, different. I read on a little and thought, mmm, but it has a distinctive voice — then I was into it and just loved its poetic, lyrical writing.

The softly flowing dialogue, t I loved this book. The softly flowing dialogue, the image of a world I knew in my childhood. She has captured it with a lyrical lilt, a feather-light narrative that hooked me in like a friendly straightjacket. I couldn't put it down — this gentle story of the eccentric people of a South Wales mining valley of the past. It's Dylanesque in style and captured the atmosphere, the characters, the eccentricities I remembered as a child. I recommend this book highly for all readers who want more than a fluffy read, who like to work to get to the core: Aug 17, Samantha Penrose rated it it was amazing Shelves: The book is essentially a town history spanning three generations.

Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the aged local beggar, shares his stories with anyone who will listen and offer a toffee, sandwich, or hot coffee. Ianto explains, with compassion like no other, the eccentric behaviors and odd traditions of the towns people which, it turns out, all stem from the emotional fall out of a terrible mining accident three generations past. Ianto alone has been the curator of these powerful emotions throu The book is essentially a town history spanning three generations. Ianto alone has been the curator of these powerful emotions through the years, observing from his bench outside of a disused church, how the wounds of each generation leave scars upon the next Apr 28, chris baxter rated it liked it.

The dark mood took its toll by about half way through the book. It was a weird conflict of appreciating the writing, but dreading feeling sorry for yet another character who was raised in horrifying conditions, physical and emotional abuse I'm sure I've read lots of book that includes these things, How Green Was My Valley had some downer stuff in it and that is one of my all time favorites, but for whatever reason, this one just didn't have anything redeeming to keep me going.

It just seemed to plod along and almost seemed to get even more depressing as I went. So I finally had to just skim the last half because I did want to see if it might at least end on a high note. I'll just say it was a fitting ending for what went before. Oct 21, Lorna rated it it was amazing. As others have said it's a story of stories but it is also poetry, and for me, pure nostalgia. I grew up with these sort of people in a small Welsh mining community.

I remember the men returning home black, their boots ringing on the road home to bath in front of the fire, food boxes under one arm and a short length of pit prop under the other to be chopped for sticks to light the fire next As others have said it's a story of stories but it is also poetry, and for me, pure nostalgia.

I remember the men returning home black, their boots ringing on the road home to bath in front of the fire, food boxes under one arm and a short length of pit prop under the other to be chopped for sticks to light the fire next morning. The pits are all gone and communities decimated with no work to be had anymore. This eloquently written book I will keep by me to re-read for the poetical written stories of a bygone era. Thank you for a wonderful read. Aug 30, Champaign Public Library rated it really liked it Shelves: This is a story about a town's history spanning three generations.

Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, the beloved local beggar, recounts local history for anyone who will listen. Ianto explains, with compassion like no other, the eccentric behaviors of the town's people which, it turns out, all stem from the emotional fall out of a terrible mining accident three generations past. Oct 25, Maggie rated it really liked it. A lovely little tale set in a coal mining town in Wales The story covers the relationship between a young bow staying with his grandmother while his parents go through a divorce and a beggar who lives in the porch of an abandoned chapel.

Aug 04, Bonnie ZoBell rated it it was amazing. Vanessa Gebbie's Soulful Saga Vanessa Gebbie has created a deep and passionate not to mention humorous story in her stunning debut novel, The Coward's Tale. Families and generations and individual tragedies are intermingled and come masterfully to life with her literary prowess. So beautiful and tender is her use of language that the name Dickens comes to mind. Gebbie deftly elicits an eerie and mysterious tone in this heart-wrenching tale.

At the current time in the story, folks are still recove Vanessa Gebbie's Soulful Saga Vanessa Gebbie has created a deep and passionate not to mention humorous story in her stunning debut novel, The Coward's Tale. At the current time in the story, folks are still recovering from a tragic mining disaster at the Kindly Light Pit, which happened years ago.

Many characters' lives are still shaped by this event, either because they were alive at the time and lost loved ones or because they had past family members who died. Take Eve Bartholomew, a woman who has lived alone with her mother, "a strange one," for many years and whose intended is killed in the accident only a few days before they are to be wed. Several evenings later, a neighbor sees Eve wander out to the garden in a soiled nightdress "even though it was not yet night.

That night she dresses in her wedding gown and veil, both of which she's been hand sewing in private for months. She walks through the hamlet with her ragged roses in her matrimonial regalia "and for the first time heard laughter in the air, and singing, and the voices of friends, and there were neighbors wishing her well. She approaches the chapel, which has been prepared for the funerals of the miners the next day, steps into the darkened chapel, and sees and hears what she wants to.

There is her betrothed, Edward Bartholomew, and they recite "For richer or poorer" and "until death us do part, as if that had not already happened. We can only hope one built on fantasy is more real to her. However, there are signs all these years later that the town may finally be recovering from the mining collapse. For instance, of the three generations of Baker Bowens, only two actually bake. The present day Baker Bowen is still called that even though he's never been near a rolling pin in his life.

Instead, he is a fixer of feet—townspeople limp down his hill with warts, bunions, corns, and worse.

It was his grandfather, the original Baker Bowen, who was known for his baking finesse. This William was the first in the family to go into the business because his dear friend Benjie Lewis gave him enough money to buy an oven on his wedding day. As time goes by, though, we gradually understand that William has crossed Benjie in a very personal way, so badly that an black curse is visited on him. Only in the current time, three generations later, does Andrew Bowen, who never intended to cook but keeps his trays of foot instruments—"scissors and tweezers, files and pincers, blades and blade holders, picks and points"—in the old ovens find that there might be a possibility for his family's redemption.

The mysterious Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins is the town historian and storyteller who weaves these generations of stories together—mysterious because he is also the town beggar and doesn't seem entirely right in the head. If someone will only give him a toffee, though, he will tell the folks in the village more of what they've come to hear: Eventually we learn what happened to him, too, what has made him the eerie and unfortunate character he is.

His main listener and chronicler is a boy named Laddy Merridew, who has come to stay with his grandmother for a while. Through his unusual teacher, Ianto, he begins to learn far more about the trials and tribulations of human beings than he ever would have staying home with his overly pious granny. Gebbie's soulful rendering of this emotionally-tarnished hamlet brings it alive as a favorite character itself so that one can't help being pleased to see signs of rebirth after its overwhelming tragedy. The love and sympathy Gebbie has for her thoroughly complex and wonderful characters make it the tale it is.

This is one of those glorious books that you look forward to coming home and reading every night, one that makes you very sorry when it's over. Jul 30, Nancy Freund rated it it was amazing. In fact, I bought this book in print and in audio, so I could go back and forth, listening to the wonderful voice actor re-read scenes to me at night. So lyrical and such a pleasure. It felt like I got to be one of the players in this magical play, collar turned up against the chill, cinema queue down the st "Oh, there's lovely It felt like I got to be one of the players in this magical play, collar turned up against the chill, cinema queue down the street nearby, listening to the local lore.

He is a kind soul in a town still struggling with an old mining accident at Kindly Light. Ianto was a boy himself when he was in this mining accident, but we don't learn this until well into the story. Now, as he weaves his tales for anyone who offers him a toffee or a sandwich, and often for his newly arrived young friend Laddy Merridew, we begin to suspect there may be as much detail suppressed as revealed. The stories begin to braid together and prove our suspicions true. And bit by bit, we begin to understand how Ianto Paeschendale Jenkins came to be known as "Paeschendale," which means "coward.

In fact, many of the town's people wear their nicknames like the truth of themselves, perhaps making their reputations their true stories after all. In this regard, the Welsh mining town feels very familiar -- any small town culture can define people's personalities in long-lasting ways. Like a wise, fully-integrated outsider, Ianto seems to have access to and an understanding of all of it, and the stories he tells are as universal as they are specific to this town.

The fact that he repeatedly taps his broken watch with no hands, and that the town's clock also doesn't tell the time, suggests a timelessness and universality to the whole thing, the whole place. Even now I can feel the cool, darkness of being underground in the mine, I can smell the coal, I feel a bit trembly in the perceived presence of a strict father who wants the best for his son who's no good in school but expresses it cruelly. You just can't help but be inside this novel. Vanessa Gebbie has been described as a poet and songstress as well as a short story writer and novelist and creative writing instructor.

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All are certainly accurate. She weaves together a delicious opening, remarkably varied and poetic building stories, and ultimately a gorgeous ending. Unlike with many novels, I didn't see it coming. But when I read it, and when I listened to it in audio, I had to listen again. Vanessa Gebbie's book tells a seemingly simple, down-to-earth tale within a series of interwoven tales of Ianto Passchendaele Jenkins, a beggar and story teller, who shares the history of Kindly Light, a Welsh mining village and its inhabitants with anyone willing to buy him a coffee or offer him a sweet.

There is a great sense of affection in this story. Gebbie obviously loves her characters and there is a great sense of humanity running through the book. None of the characters is perfect, but they are each redeemable and capable of much goodness. There is Factual Phillips the librarian, Half Harris a mentally disabled man and Icarus Evans, the woodwork teacher whose aim was to carve a feather from wood so realistically that it would float like a real feather. The ending is, perhaps, one of the most perfect of story endings I've ever experienced Sep 09, Felice rated it did not like it.

I could not help myself. I read it anyway. The facts were right in front of me, I ignored them. I knew it was going to end in tears but I did it anyway. I have no one to blame but myself. When I look back I know what my downfall was. It was the cover. In my defense I did not purchase this book. It was sent to me a gift. Would I have selected T I could not help myself. I would certainly have picked it up to look atthat terrific cover remember?

However I would have read the back of the book and I think then that I would have put it down. This is all speculation. I am not in procession of a Wayback Machine and I did read the book so I have to deal with it. I kid you not.

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That is what happens in the novel and that is how the publisher describes it. In that casual, every town has one sort of way. Our beggar-storyteller may have been forced to take early retirement or a new position in the highway department. She is an accomplished author with two published short story collections to her credit. Oh no let me correct that. Vanessa Gebbie is the author of three published short story collections.

Let my foolishness be a lesson to you. Apr 15, Reid rated it really liked it.

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