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The Best of Gerald Kersh by Gerald Kersh

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4.0

Gerald Kersh is almost unknown now. He is a very different. Both high appraisers and high critics can agree on this.

He focuses on the lives of people in the fringe of the society. He makes you face the two types of choices we have towards miseries of life, either to laugh or cry. Gerald Kersh is was not only the one to laugh but to make all of us does. That's how genius he is.

I will leave you with this sentence of Busto is a Ghost short story which you can in this collection: "Pio Busto used to cross himself before a lithograph of the Mona Lisa. He thought it represented the Virgin Mary. But in any case it was generally believed that Busto had no soul to save."
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