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Title: All the Rage
Subtitle: Stories
Author: A. L. Kennedy
Narrator: Simon Vance, Heather Wilds
Format: Unabridged
Length: 4 hrs and 58 mins
Language: English
Release date: 04-29-14
Publisher: Brilliance Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 1 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
A. L. Kennedy's riveting new story collection is a luscious feast of language that encompasses real estate and forlorn pets, adolescents and 60-somethings, weekly liaisons and obsessive affairs, "certain types of threat and the odder edges of sweet things". The women and men in these 12 stories search for love, solace, and a clear glimpse of what their lives have become. Anything can set them off thinking - the sad homogeneity of hotel breakfasts, a sex shop operated under Canadian values (whatever those are), or an army of joggers dressed as Santa.
With her boundless empathy and gift for the perfect phrase, Kennedy makes us care about each of her characters. In "Takes You Home", a man's attempt to sell his flat becomes a journey to the interior, by turns comic and harrowing. And "Late in Life" deftly evokes an intergenerational love affair free of the usual clichés, the younger partner asking the older, "What should I wear at your funeral?"
Alive with memory, humor, and longing, All the Rage is A. L. Kennedy at her inimitable best.
Members Reviews:
Not for me.
To be honest, I really hated these stories. The reviews were so inviting that I sent for the book, only to find that I felt no affinity for any of the characters, their language, their emotions, or anything. A while after I put the book down, I thought I'd try again. after all, the author is so highly considered by so many impressive reviewers. And she is so widely published. I still found the stories unreadable. Something wrong with me? Maybe. But I read a great deal and have lists of authors whose work I adore and whose books I buy. So, sorry.
Four Stars
The stories are difficult but fascinating, full of hidden clues, and need more than one reading.
Five Stars
great book
Monument to lust, heartbreak and loss
Here are twelve short stories whose primary theme is love. But that large, pristine, smooth block of marble known as love, is, in the authorâs hands, chiselled into monuments to lust, heartbreak and loss. Scattered around these monuments are small chunks of hope and humour that have been allowed to remain intact and which the reader stumbles over every so often as they look up at misery sculpted large.
The writing style is staccato like and too often obtuse and dense. There is a stream of consciousness that permeates most of the stories with internal dialogues that at times feel like their pushing the reader away with their repetitive, minimalistic style of narrative.
âAnd meanwhile you, thereâs you and you were, you really, you absolutely â I absolutely â in all of the ways I would like to â in all the ways I would like
But I
But I
But I
But I
Phone would be better.â
From, 'A Thing unheard of'.
But this repetitive, minimalistic style though at times distancing is honest. Peopleâs external and internal dialogues are full of repetitious phrases and words that are used to make a point, or to make sure a word or phrase was heard by those listening. We look to validate a point and/or our place in our discussion group by repeating words and phrases. We repeat words or phrases in our internal dialogue so that when we have to repeat them out loud they will hopefully make sense.
There are moments of laugh out loud humour.
