Infidelities
Kirsty Gunn
Faber & Faber, 224pp, £12.99
“Nobody buys short stories anyway,” says a character, Richard, in the prologue to Kirsty Gunn’s new collection, Infidelities. “No one thinks there’s enough going on.” The challenge from writer to reader is stark; watch out, there will be plenty going on here. Gunn lives up to the promise, to an extent. Her stories are varied and strange, populated by meditating monks and trapped wolves, foxes that dart across your path. Many flirt with a fashionable self-consciousness: these are not simply stories, but stories that know they are stories.
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