Contains 4 short stories about modern life, illustrating its loneliness, beauty and bleak humour. His recent work }Shortcomings{ was chosen by the }New York Times{ as one of the 100 Notable Books Of The Year, and he will be coming to the UK in the spring to raise his profile. 'Tomine has both talent and a writer's eye for the truth' Nick Hornby. Trade paperback Picking up from his earlier collection Sleepwalk, and the precursor to his award-winning Shortcomings, the four stories in Summer Blonde are quintessential Tomine.
