Btw, I've started reading his Men Without Women, and I'm loving it so far, having read the first two stories. It's actually my first encounter with his shorter fiction. It's different from some other short story writers I've read, not that I've read much. It feels a little like tchekhov or Munro, but way more elusive, inconclusive, but in a way that, to me, didn't need any conclusions. I like it how he is expressing life as it is, the feelings you get when thinking about the transitory aspect of it, people that move in and out of your life etc...
I liked both stories, the second, "yesterday" , a little more for I'm in a time of my life that exactly mirrors the stuff that goes on with some characters, having the same longings, and there's something about thinking about the unknown future, and the passage of time (this sudden cut to a time farther in the future) that always gets me.
The first one, "Drive my car", I liked as well, the inconclusiveness of it making special sense since the protagonist himself has unfinished business with his departed wife.
When I read it I was also ready to make a rant against the people - not here - complaining, with their political correctness, about some "old" ideas the protagonist has, extending them actually (in their minds) to the author himlself, and taking far more offense than they should with (which is none), but I've lost energy to do so...
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