
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories
Tag: My Books
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent
Publication Year: 2013
Format: Ebook & Paperback
Length: 206
ASIN: B06WGVDNH8
ISBN: 9781482382082
A collection of Prize-winning short stories by Clifford Thurlow.
"She liked the way the boy's face grew tense when someone was speaking to him. His attention as he leaned forward was an embrace drawing the speaker into his world. He claimed them and they, in turn, were captivated by him. He was alert, watchful, spontaneous, his features softened by the oblique light around the amber lampshades. Before he had grown aware of her eyes upon him she was picturing them posing together for an erotic photograph with Dominic peeping through the aperture of his camera."
In Cool, Sexy & Dead, when Tom meets Lucy, he doesn't know he hasn't chosen her. She has chosen him … and he learns that night just how deadly it can be to go home with an unknown girl met in a bar.
When Victoria Page buys The Little Black Dress all the men in her life suddenly want to kill her. A London Arts Board prize-winning story first published by Forth Estate.
Family Planning, first published in The Third Alternative, shows us how one man gets rid of bothersome family members.
After falling in love with a younger woman, Edward Clavell in North of Nowhere travels back into the past and discovers more than he wants to know.
Love and loss, class and colour, a teenaged girl moves to the big city and gets lost along the way in Tail Lights, Writers Forum prize-winning story.
Review
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Cool, Sexy & Dead is a collection of vignettes about relationships in crises, which ricochet between the heights of erotic fulfilment to the depths of emotional despair, often degenerating into seemingly senseless acts of violence. Clifford Thurlow displays a keen sense of perception and adroitly elevates simple narrative to evocative poetry. His characters are not only three-dimensional, but fully textured with emotional nuances that approach hyperrealism. From the socially marginalized to aristocrats, his characters seem both believable and intriguing, as do their surroundings, which are crafted with a superb attention to detail.
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5* Amazon review
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5* Amazon review
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5* Amazon review
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5* Amazon review