Twelve Stories is a collection of brief vignettes that introduce a new writer. The reader can pick up the book and read any chapter and find truth, a smile, an epiphany and most importantly one young man’s reality.
Each of the chapters is a memory of a chaotic teenage life. The viewpoint is a lyrical, exploration of the exigencies, heartbreaks, and limits of love.
Above all, it is a book that can be picked up in any chapter and break your heart.
This is from the “I’m so damned fascinating” genre.
“So now that I’ve told you how you’re supposed to feel about this whole thing, you don’t actually have to read it; just recite the emotions prescribed, and your paid endorsement of my book is done!”
All I got out of that blurb is “The reader can pick up the book and place it in the waste bin.”