Content: short stories

Summary:

This is a book about titles, Shakespeare, the role of masculinity in the post-feminist world and sexual fantasy. It concers e c love, a would-be novelist, who begins a literary apprenticeship of short-stroy writing, comminplace-book-keeping and diary entry as a self-conscious literary apprenticeship intended to exercise and develop his powers as a writer to fit him to tackle the title he has siscovered in Shakespeare which he believes will propel him to literary greatness. He is an unreliable and self-obsessed narrator whose obsessions cause him to write about aspects of the same topic (hard treatment at the hands of women) from a number of different perspective. The novel is comic in tone and intent. It is finished and has attracted some interest. I am particularly interested in feedback from women readers as it was suggested by a publishing company which did consider publishing the work that it might not appeal to female readers. This was slightly contrary to my intention which was to comically reveal aspects of male psychology to a female audience. I'd be interested to know how successfully this intention was transacted. I'd also of course be interested in hearing any feedback relating to the 'readability' of a text which is by design fragmentary and stylistically varied.

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