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Bang Crunch

By Neil Smith
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Publisher Description

In Neil Smith’s nine stories, average people find themselves in decidedly unusual situations, as the mundane and the fantastic collide. A woman mourning the loss of her husband finds solace in talking to his ashes, entombed in a curling stone. The title story zeroes in on a girl with Fred Hoyle syndrome, whose age expands and contracts like the universe. The members of a support group for people with benign tumors begin to suspect that their meekness has caused their medical woes.

Bang Crunch creates an extraordinary world inhabited by all-too-human characters, and heralds the arrival of a literary talent with an unfailing, exacting concern for the profundities of our lives.

15 Reviews

3.5
“I'm not sure when or where I got this, but I've had it for so long, the pages are no longer white. So I figured, what better time to read it than now? Starting off with the two best stories of the collection, "Isolettes" and "Green Fluorescent Protein," the whole thing quickly loses steam. A few other stories like "The Butterfly Box" and the title story are fine enough, and if more of them were like those, it would have been a 3 star rating for me. Unfortunately, we get stories like "Extremities" about gloves that have a mind of their own ("Here we are!" the gloves called out. "Oh, sweet Jesus, here we are!") that either fall flat or just don't work very well.”

About Neil Smith

Neil Smith is a Montreal writer. He has won an honorable mention at the National Magazine Awards in Canada, first prize at the Eden Mills Writers' Festival, and was nominated for the Journey Prize, one of Canada's most prestigous literary awards, three times. He is also a French translator.

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