Picking up from his earlier collection "Sleepwalk", and the precursor to his awa
rd-winning "Shortcomings", the four stories in "Summer Blonde" are quintessentia
l Tomine. Memorably featuring characters such as Neil, Carlo and Hillary Chan, a
mong others, these are beautiful and haunting tales that illustrate with great s
ympathy the loneliness and bleak humour of modern life.