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"I was in pain and wanted others to feel it too"
Probably 3.5* for what is an astonishingly vivid, punchy and well-written novella. I don't know if the storyline's really enough to give it more.The nameless narrator is an Irish advertising whizz kid, working in London. He's professionally successful. And an alcoholic. He deliberately provokes fights in pubs. Then he moves on to women: reeling them in then dumping them with some choice home-truths: "I enjoyed it so much. Not the sex or even the conquest, but the causing of pain."He kicks the booze. He gets a well-paid job in the USA. He swears off women... and then he meets Aisling: "she looked just like the pictures of the Virgin Mary in Irish Catholic homes." But Aisling is no saint and our narrator is about to get his comeuppance.Read in one sitting, it's quite a compulsive story.
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