The Broken Record Technique

by Lee Henderson

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141005688
• ISBN13: 9780141005683
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Wahoo! This book rocks!

Why oh why did not this book receive more press? I would say this probably the best short story collection of the year to come out of Canada, and yes, that includes all the ones that were up for fancy awards and those that saturated the press. The stories are all seeped in real emotion (not that fake literary emotion), laugh-out-loud humour, deep sadness, and wicked strangeness. Lee Henderson is a diamond-cut treasure. I loved loved loved this book. Rumour has it, he's writing a novel. How lucky are we?

The most exciting book I've read in ages!

I came across this book completely by accident while browsing in a bookstore. The cover art was what initially grabbed me, and within seconds of opening the book to a random page, I was hooked. The story was about children engaged in one of those dress-up sumo wrestling matches during a block party. The writing was so evocative and compelling, full of humour and yet tinged with sadness, that I just had to buy the book. I read the book from cover to cover in two days. Each story was so innovative and exciting, the characters so unique and yet undeniably real, that reading this book was sweet relief from the usual cliched stuff that's out there. I can't wait to read this writer's next book!