Volume 51 Issue 8 - August 2013 : Art & Culture
Love of fat men
Author : Helen Dunmore
Title: LOVE OF FAT MEN
Author: HELEN DUNMORE
Publisher: THE PENGUIN GROUP
Reviewer: Lesego Bogatsu
Love of Fat Men explores love, sexuality, danger and loss. There are nineteen topics in this beautifully written collection of stories. Some of these are The grand Day, Batteries, Short Days, Long Nights, The Bridge Painter, Spring Wedding, Annina, The Ice Bear, The Orang-utans and the Angry Woman, Paivi, The Thief and nine others. Helen Dunmore takes us into a harsh, sensuous world of endless days experiences and weathers. In Short Days, Long Nights, a woman wakes to find a strange man in her bed. She is so scared because she can not even recall the events of the hectic night before.You just have to read this book!. Two young ladies who are fashion students get lost in a stormy icey weather…the rest is a sad but very interesting tale. Definitely an enthralling must read.