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Title: Excellent collection of stories.
Review: Ilsley's short stories illuminate the subtle and not-so-subtle ways in which hatred and cruelty manifest themselves in various types of relationships (parental, peer, and sexual). The book is random in the sense that we are presented with different categories of relationship in stories of varying length. However, there is nothing random about the hatred that many characters evidence toward one another. Psychological and, in some cases, physical hurt occur with alarming regularity. Ilsley's talent resides in his ability, within the unforgiving genre of the short story, to deftly characterize these people, so that we, the reader, can understand why they do the hateful things they do.
