Confidence (eBook)

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In the stories ofConfidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, seedy massage parlors, experimental filmmakers who record every second of their day, and wives who blog insults directed at their husbands. There are cheating husbands. There are private clubs, crowded restaurants, psychiatric wards. There is one magic cinema and everyone has a secret of some kind.Praise forConfidenceA poisonously funny portrait of the so-hip-it-hurts fashion, food, and bar scene.MacleansSmith, a long-time Globe and Mail columnist, is a gifted anthropologist of the urbane. Those gifts are on full display throughout Confidence. The Globe and MailDarkly hilarious Toronto author and arts journalist Russell Smith continues his assault on what he sees as the tame sensibility of Canadian literary fiction Confidencefinds Smith at the top of his game.Morley Walker,The Winnipeg Free PressIn the world of these stories, love is a game, secrets pile up, needs go unmet, compromises and negotiations are constantly being made [Yet the final pieces] soften the books unflinching tone and deliver, finally, emotional resonance by hinting at vulnerable humanity and the truest, simplest desires behind the exhaustive chase of pleasure.Carla Gillis,Quill & QuireWhen I pick up a book by Russell Smith Ive come to expect to read about sex, and ambition, and a city that can be exciting and superficial, and glitters with the promise that it doesnt always deliver. There is all that in his new collection of short stories. Shelagh Rogers, CBC Radio OnesThe Next ChapterDarkly funny,Confidenceskewers modern relationships with just enough hope and romance left at the bottom of Pandoras box to remind us why we suffer through the tribulations of loveThis is not the stodgy CanLit you were assigned in school Russell Smiths writing is sharp and sultry W DishIts a delicious darkness that pervades Russell Smiths latest short store collection,Confidence Unflinchingly honest reading. THIS Magazine