The Dinner Party and Other Stories by Joshua Ferris

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


Eleven stories of young men who find themselves in trouble do to their inability to adequately employ self-examination. All of them attempt to do so and they miss the mark. Sometimes this ends up in fatally destroy a marriage, sometimes, as in the case of the last story, resulting in a death. We are all Oedipus (not the mother thing, but the acting out of ignorance part). Are men inevitably "bulls in a china shop," doomed to bring things crashing down around them despite the best of intentions?

The stories are very readable.



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