A Bowl Of Cherries
A Fiction book. I've loved Shena Mackay's other books for their black humour and sly dissection of suburban life. A...
In A Bowl of Cherries Shena Mackay tells the story of twin brothers whose lives are inexorably intertwined: Rex, a self-absorbed and successful writer, and Stanley, a minor poet who works as a dishwasher. Rex lives on the family estate being the older of the twins by one minute with his unhappy wife, Daphne, who writes children's books. Their overweight daughter, Daisy, lives nearby,...
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- ISBN: 9780140231311 / 140231315
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I've loved Shena Mackay's other books for their black humour and sly dissection of suburban life. A Bowl of Cherries has both of these elements in spades but a rather disappointing plot, and some characters who are not as fully developed as the might be. It was never less than enjoyable, but not as wholly satisfying as novels like The... I liked the dark humor. Interesting story. A dreary tale of dreary people interspersed with sharp observation and the darkest of dark humour. A lot of slapping of faces, a lot of bad decisions, emotional torture, and low motives all set firmly in time and place. The angels are not very angelic and with one exception, the demons are not that bad - just very, very weak. The writing...
