My Life In Heavy Metal

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Steve Almond's stunning first collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties, their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities, taking a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence; By turns tender and raw, visceral and otherworldly, the stories in My Life in Heavy Metal capture the moments when the fires of passion burn over and subside into the embers of pain and longing. This is a dazzling debut by a vibrant and gifted new writer.

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Remarkably good... Perverse, poetic, odd... It will leave you feeling quite wonderful * Guardian *
'Excellent...This is no headbanging memoir of juvenile depravity, but an unashamed handbook to the sustained pursuit of sex * The Times *
Consistently clever... genuinely memorable * Boston Globe *
While each tale is original and complete in itself, a beautiful atmosphere of comic melancholy pervades the whole * Esquire *
Funny, softhearted and hopeful * Los Angeles Times *

Author Bio

Steve Almond's fiction has appeared in Missouri Review, Playboy, Southern Review, All-Story and Zoetrope. He lives in Boston, where he teaches creative writing at Boston College and Emerson college.