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Male Tears

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Bloomsbury presents Male Tears by Benjamin Myers, read by Craig Parkinson.

Cracking ... Richly distinctive stories, with unnerving, dark plotlines’ Independent

'One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times' David Peace

In Male Tears, a debut collection of stories that brings together over fifteen years of work, Benjamin Myers lays bare the male psyche in all its fragility, complexity and failure, its hubris and forbidden tenderness. Farmers, fairground workers and wandering pilgrims, gruesome gamekeepers, bare-knuckle boxers and ex-cons with secret passions, the men that populate these unsettling, wild and wistful stories form a multi-faceted, era-spanning portrait of just what it means to be a man.

Critics Review

Impressive ... Myers’ compassionate and tender approach to his characters makes even the most flawed of them worthy of empathy
New Statesman
In his varied, and often satirical, takes on an alternative English history, steeped in the mythic, folkloric and grotesque, Myers taps into a rich vein of Yorkshire gothic, both menacing and comically absurd, its register set somewhere between Ted Hughes, Emily Bronte and The League of Gentlemen. The stories resonate most when his dark humour and lyricism combined
Times Literary Supplement
Richly distinctive stories, with unnerving, dark plotlines ... Bleakly funny
Independent
Moving fast and deadly, the stories in Male Tears carry us from bleak farms to lonely reservoirs and snowbound woods. Benjamin Myers writes sentences with a charging pulse and the account they give of masculinity is a bloody one, stripped of romance and larded with wit
Chris Power
Benjamin Myers' stories in Male Tears cut right to the heart of the matter. This is fiction to be taken in gulps of pleasure - full of fire and light, wisdom and violence
Rob Doyle
One of the most interesting, restless writers of his generation
Daily Mail
Benjamin Myers’s multifaceted short stories grapple with the nature of masculinity
Observer
These collected stories are by turns bleak, sardonic, darkly funny and grievously moving ... Myers' theme is masculinity in all its varied woundedness, violence and pathos. There is gritty realism, otherwordly parable, pastoral vignettes and cutting satire, crafted from vivid pros and striking imagery ... They are incisive, powerfully revealing of the ways men are shaped, and how that shapes our world
SA Weekend
A powerful new voice
The Times
Myers is the master of rural English noir
Paul Kingsnorth
One of the most singular, moving and crucial voices of our times
David Peace
Powerful, visceral writing
Pat Barker
Author Benjamin Myers
Narrator Craig Parkinson
Duration 6 hours and 12 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781526622129
Format Audiobook
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Genre Narrative theme: Identity / belonging, Short stories
Availability AU, GB, IE

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