Crossing Limbo

Deep Moments, Shallow Lives

De: Shane Joseph

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Greed, desire, ambition, loss, illness, death, and the driving quest to find purpose in a meaningless world.—this literary collection tempts your palate with a multitude of themes and subjects, each more daring than the last. The characters in these 13 stories are wading through no man's land, wanting to escape, but first needing to complete their personal journeys through limbo. Opening with “Waiting for the Train,” in which a young girl and a forgotten writer contemplate suicide, and closing with “The Long Road Back”, wherein a woman uses tantric sex to heal the men in her life, the stories encompass all aspects of life without holding back. Nothing is off-limits: Joseph draws a picture of life in the raw and deals with tough topics in an honest and naked way. "Like the title of the book, each character finds themselves at a point in their tale where they are forced to cross their own personal limbo. This collection of stories is recommended for those who are not faint of heart." - Catherine Gissing, extract of her review in the Book Review Literary Trust of India. "In this collection the anti-heroes, haunted by their pasts, attempt to evict themselves from the situations they encounter themselves in, with varying degrees of success. As Shane Joseph puts it in the Acknowledgements at the beginning of the collection, 'I wrestled with these somewhat unfortunate and slightly unsavoury characters, following their lives, and guiding them across Limbo. Sometimes I succeeded in getting them to the other side, sometimes... well, you be the judge.' " - Christopher Canniff, author of Poor Man's Galapagos. "It's rare to find a collection of short stories where each of the tales leave their mark." - KJ Mullins on newz4u.ca