Inner Core

<p><em>Death anxiety masculinity family and children social good and rocks. All things that touch the life of a middle-aged man. In these stories written over the past two years Miki Lentin goes in search of a rock with his child in Ireland travels to Istanbul with his wife while sleep-deprived recounts memories of working and growing up in Dublin and explores what it means to do good in society today. All told with Lentin's minimalist tone Inner Core portrays his life on the edge.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em>Miki Lentin's short stories are always consistently enthralling. I've loved the way that they have drawn me into painful familiar male experiences. In particular they explore men's emotions and troubled relationships in an honest original and entertaining way. I can't stop turning the pages when I settle down to reading them. They are funny moving and disturbing in equal measure. They slice through contemporary life for me and expose the underbelly of what is really going on unconsciously but are always framed by enlivening action and drama. Very highly recommended!</em> Francis Gilbert Head of the MA in Creative Writing and Education at Goldsmiths<em> </em>author of <em>I'm a Teacher Get Me Out of Here</em> and <em>The Last Day of Term</em>.</p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Great opening paragraph. Narrative slides effectively in and out of time and the voice feels authentic </em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>about story</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> Inner Core. </em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>David Shields</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> </em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>author of</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> Reality Hunger The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead </em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>and</span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> The Trouble With Men.</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> </span><em>Miki Lentin takes linear time and smashes it to pieces reassembling the shards as narrative mosaics. There is beauty sadness love loss in the fragments but you need to stand back and take it all in to appreciate the bigger picture. </em>Lynda Clark author of the short story collection<em> Dreaming in Quantum </em>and <em>Beyond Kidding.</em></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>With delicacy Lentin lets the most ordinary items and details - a rock clothes that smell of bread meringues a caf�� mess a butter dish - to suggest larger more nuanced and complex feelings and perceptions. There is an admirable urgency authenticity and grim humour throughout these stories.</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> Gerry Stembridge author of </span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>The Effect of Her</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> co-writer of the film </span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Nora</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> and the crime comedy </span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Ordinary Decent Criminal</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>.</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)><span>���</span>Miki's stories about working with refugees are sensitively observed and moving - and they will enrich your understanding of an ethically complex subject.</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> Daniel Trilling journalist and author of </span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Lights in the Distance</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>Bloody Nasty People</em><span style=color: rgba(31 31 31 1)>. </span></p>