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Alpha Male

Brandt, William

A dazzling debut short story collection and a progress report on the beleagued male psyche. Brandt's characters have a lot to come to terms with, and the five stories here bristle with comic wit (and sympathy) as the male protagonists blunder their way through a world which they no longer fully understand. Brandt's dialogue is stunning and perfectly pitched, his sense of timing impeccable. The collection reaches its apex in the cunningly surreal The Jean-Paul Sartre Experience where the hero finds himself cuckolded by the dead philosopher and cast in the eunuch role of chauffeur, all for the love of Sharon Stone.

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