Ladykiller: Stories - Softcover

Gill, Charlotte

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83 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887621775 ISBN 13: 9780887621772

Publisher: Thomas Allen Pub, 2005

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Ladykiller is the astonishing debut collection of seven smart stories from an exciting new voice in Canadian literature. Charlotte Gill is a brilliant young writer who is not afraid to stare down the truth and shame the devil. She conjures compelling stories about escape, self-sabotage, and the power of unconscious desire. A couple plots against a crying baby in the apartment below as their dysfunctional relationship begins to veer off course. A hot-shot scuba-diving instructor falls for a teenaged girl in a perilous Lolita-like romance. Twin sisters travel to exotic lands in search of romance in order to rescue themselves from their own dark, intense bond. A woman reconnects with the son of her father's mistress, and together they begin an obsession with the past. A medical student embarks on an affair with a professor and discovers revolution in disastrous consequences. An unfaithful man takes his girlfriend to his ailing mother's for Christmas, only to find himself at the crossro

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About the Author:

Charlotte Gill was born in London, England, and raised in the United States and Canada. She is a graduate of the MFA program in creative writing at the University of British Columbia. Her work appeared in Canadian literary magazines, in Best Canadian stories, and has been broadcast on CBC Radio. One of the stories from this collection, Hush, was a finalist for the 2003 Journey Prize. She lives in Vancouver.

Review:

"In Charlotte Gill's shockingly unsentimental stories, her emotional pyromaniacs hurtle towards various degress of conflagration. CAUTION: Her prose is booby-trapped with combinations of words so lethally effective they may as well be dynamite." (Zsuzsi Gartner)

"...topics and descriptive tactics are well wed to Gill's characters' sensibilities and make for some cleverly arresting observation and imagery. Her sense of satire is no less honed."

(Quill & Quire)

"There is something both dark and tender in "Ladykiller". Charlotte Gill is a wise purveyor of the heart's loyal yet capricious nature. A stylish and sassy debut."

(Michael Winter)

"...an excellent collection...This is an intelligent, contemporary book...Every story in "Ladykiller" sings in its own way. Nothing should have been done better in "Ladykiller". Charlotte Gill's voice is on every page, her sure eye for contemporary detail, her originality and unsentimental wit, her ability to deliver us to endings with a sense of having read tellingly about our own world. About ourselves, even. That is Charlotte Gill's authority. And that's also why, when finishing "Ladykiller", I wished I had something else written by Gill to open immediately. I wanted back in."

(Globe and Mail)

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