Driving Men Mad

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Summary: This is a book which is so brilliant, it shines in the dark.
Review: Author Elise Levine uses words as if they were lightening bolts, red hot pokers, sun bursts and roman candles. Each word dazzles, kindles, scorches, inflames and sets the reader's imagination on fire. Yet this psychic burning leads not to annihilation, but to the purification which must come before enlightenment. These words are then uttered by characters as devastating as fire-breathing dragons, as delicate as fireflies, as familiar as our own incandescent selves. Long after the book has been read, these stories stay smouldering in the shadowy corners of the mind, like embers which refuse to die or an afterglow reluctant to fade away. Oscar Wilde once said, "All of us are in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Elise Levine reminds us that those stars can be seen by looking down as well as up, by seeking within as well as without, and that reflections can be as true as reality. DRIVING MEN MAD is a disturbing book, a scintillating book, and a book which is ultimately so brilliant that it shines in the dark.

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Summary: Short stories for a life-time of thought
Review: Elise Levine's Driving Men Mad is an incredible work of art. She writes with provocative skill and an intuition that creates splendor for the mind. A women's book. A lover's book. A feminist's book. A lesbian's book. She writes of real people doing real things, and dealing with real issues. Not for the faint of heart, as she will move you, cause you to question yourself, hurt you, please you, relate to you, and hold you in the palm of her hand. She will bring you into another world; one, that after reading this book, you'll never be able to escape. Read it. Remember it