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    1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray (freddlerabbit)
    freddlerabbit: Both books have resignedly morbid characters and outlooks - both are finely wrought and unique. The surrealism of each differs, but both have it.
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Trow's stories are darkly whimsical - they all seem loosely set in a mouldy universe of hotel tenants, but there is a slipperiness about that setting, and in one or two cases, I wasn't sure the story was in the same place as the others. Some are morbidly hilarious - some are rather creepy and dark. I think some stories are stronger than others, but not enough to call it an uneven collection - it's unique, and curious, and certainly worth a read to fans of the short story, of cynicism and weirdness, and of a sort of bemused hopelessness about the human condition. ( )
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