Excitable Women Damaged Men

By Robert Boyers

"Robert Boyers first published stories are marvels of intensity, in which brilliant, hilariously neurotic people hide from themselves and others, clueless on how to live. With linguistic verve, and great narrative wit and surprise, he twists them through their compulsions, their trajectories of self-torture . A bravura debut." --William Kennedy

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 188558640X
• ISBN13: 9781885586407
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Turtle Point Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Savagely Honest Yet Compassionate

Robert Boyers, the well established literary critic and editor of SALMAGUNDI MAGAZINE, turns out to be a high voltage fiction writer who makes us laugh out loud even as he describes his wound-up, often suffering, characters and puts them through their paces. The title story is almost shocking in its painful details from the life of a less than perfect adult son and his neurotically repellant mother. The vitality of every line of Boyers' prose keeps us turning the pages of this stunning collection of stories and his characters --who are sometimes both excitable and damaged--are always worth our sympathy and attention.