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Kissing in Manhattan
David Schickler. Dial Press: 2001 (hardback). ISBN: 0385335660. 288 pages.
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We remember reading a short story called "The Smoker" in
The New Yorker and thinking to ourselves, "What kind of
sick, brilliant mind came up with this?!" The answer is David
Schickler, the talented young writer whose short story
collection, Kissing in Manhattan, is perfect for anyone
who loves short stories, the city, and sex. The stories are
expertly told, strangely erotic, filled with surprising
images, clever dialogue, and plot twists that move in
directions you might never have imagined. Schickler's
collection is a sort of "Sex in the City" from a guy's point
of view--funny, smart, and stylish, with characters like no
one you've met before in relationships you never knew existed.
We are introduced to many of these characters from the outside
in, meeting them first through the eyes of another narrator
and then, sometimes shockingly in a later story, we see things
through their eyes. The shifts in perspective are enough to
make you dizzy (in a good way). What ties the separate stories
together--and this is so well done, surely one of the book's
most satisfying characteristics--is that most of the
characters (whether they know it or not) live in the same
building on the upper West side of Manhattan. The Preemption
building lurks behind each story as a sort of character
itself, adding a forboding sense of gothic atmosphere and
bringing the characters together in surprising ways.
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