Vincenzo's Garden by John Clanchy

If you were looking for a collection of perfect short stories, you could hardly do better than to pick up John Clanchy’s new book. The seven tales in Vincenzo’s Garden are uniformly controlled, beautifully constructed and masterfully executed. In ‘Late Cruising’, a middle-aged man revisits his past, a disastrous driving tour of southern France, when his insecurities over money and sexuality led to a breakup with his best friend.

If you were looking for a collection of perfect short stories, you could hardly do better than to pick up John Clanchy’s new book. The seven tales in Vincenzo’s Garden are uniformly controlled, beautifully constructed and masterfully executed. In ‘Late Cruising’, a middle-aged man revisits his past, a disastrous driving tour of southern France, when his insecurities over money and sexuality led to a breakup with his best friend.