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'My life could be described as like listening to a badly scratched CD; the lyrics don't make any sense and it always skips past the really good guitar solos. My existence was disjointed and incoherent to the limits of annoyance.' It's 1994. The year Grunge died. For twenty-something Dominik, this is the year his life will change. Stuck in a dead end job, rejected by his family and ignored by his girlfriend, Dominik's only comfort is in music and self mutilation. Until he meets the beautiful Tessa, a free spirited bohemian who, along with the guidance of his psychiatrist, Dr Shaye, help him let go of his past and rebuild broken relationships. Set during one of the most in uential music movements of the last twenty years and inspired by the music of The Smashing Pumpkins, Love is Suicide is the High Fidelity meets Rules of Attraction for the Generation X.
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"Long ago in 1945 all the nice people in England were poor, allowing for exceptions," begins The Girls of Slender Means, Dame Muriel Spark's tragic and rapier-witted portrait of a London ladies' hostel just emerging from the shadow of World War II. Like the May of Teck Club itself—"three times window shattered since 1940 but never directly hit"—its lady inhabitants do their best to act as if the world were back to normal: practicing elocution, and jostling over suitors and a single Schiaparelli gown. The novel's harrowing ending reveals that the girls' giddy literary and amorous peregrinations are hiding some tragically painful war wounds. Chosen by Anthony Burgess as one of the Best Modern Novels in the Sunday Times of London, The Girls of Slender Means is a taut and eerily perfect novel by an author The New York Times has called "one of this century's finest creators of comic-metaphysical entertainment."