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All My Friends Are Superheroes: Tenth Anniversary Edition
All My Friends Are Superheroes: Tenth Anniversary Edition
All My Friends Are Superheroes: Tenth Anniversary Edition
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All My Friends Are Superheroes: Tenth Anniversary Edition

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All Tom's friends really are superheroes. There's the Ear, the Spooner, the Impossible Man. Tom even married a superhero, the Perfectionist. But at their wedding, the Perfectionist was hypnotized (by ex-boyfriend Hypno, of course) to believe that Tom is invisible. Nothing he does can make her see him. Six months later, she's sure that Tom has abandoned her. So she's moving to Vancouver. She'll use her superpower to make Vancouver perfect and leave all the heartbreak in Toronto. With noidea Tom's beside her, she boards an airplane. Tom has until the wheels touch the ground in Vancouver to convince her he's visible, or he loses her forever. The tenth anniversary edition of Andrew Kaufman's perennial favourite, All My Friends Are Superheroes , includes a new catalogue of superheroes and gorgeous illustrations by Tom Percival.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 18, 2013
ISBN9781770563360
All My Friends Are Superheroes: Tenth Anniversary Edition
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Andrew Kaufman

Andrew Kaufman was born in Wingham, Ontario. His first novel, All My Friends Are Superheroes, was a cult hit. He is also the author of The Waterproof Bible, The Tiny Wife and the short story collection Selected Business Correspondence. Kaufman is also a film-maker and radio producer. He, for now, lives in Toronto with his wife and two kids, Phoenix and Frida.

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A strange little book. A couple get married but the ex-boyfriend of the bride hypnotises her into thinking not being able to see her new husband. Everyone else can see him, but she thinks she has been ditched on their wedding night. The groom tries to save the relationship and the slight story is intercut with descriptions of his other friends who are "superheroes", which are the best parts of the book.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Quirky, funny and bittersweet - definitely worth a read!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    A man is on a flight to Vancouver with his new wife. He's invisible to her as she's been hypnotised by a previous boyfriend not to see him and he has the flight to make her see him, or his heart will break. There are (fairly minor) superheroes involved.This is a very sweet, but extremely surreal story, which I enjoyed very much - and left me feeling all warm and fuzzy (something I don't normally look for in a book)
  • Rating: 1 out of 5 stars
    1/5
    Twee, voguish garbage for people who won't read proper novels and need to feel important. Probably the future of literature, sadly.
  • Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
    2/5
    Read in about an hour while sitting in the Piccadilly Circus Waterstones. A bit twee.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This short book is literally about people with superpowers who live normal everyday lives. They don't seem to fight crime. Many of their powers are of the variety you wouldn't actually want, causing more trouble then they're worth. Besides the main character, Tom a normal, and his wife The Perfectionist, the characters are more descriptions of the powers they have, rather then fleshed out individuals. I smiled a few times at the amusing powers and situations they left their owners in. I'd have liked to see the premise explored a bit more. 2.5 stars.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Just a smart little novella about Tom and The Perfectionist and their relationship. What makes this book truly insightful are all the secondary characters and their superpowers. What would your superpower name be?
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    This is a short (100 page) novel about the superheroes all around us. No Batman or Superman. No altruistic do-gooders, either. It's just that people have tragic flaws or personality traits that, left unchecked, can turn them into superheroes -- like the Perfectionist.This is a love story. Tom, who isn't a superhero, marries the Perfectionist. But, she's been hypnotized and can't see him. They are flying to Vancouver, and he has until the plane lands to make her see him, or he will lose her forever. How can an ordinary guy, with no super-powers succeed?This is quirky, entertaining and you will recognize some of the superheroes.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Despite what it says in the blurb on the back of the book, this is pretty far from being what anyone might call a "novel." But as a lengthy short story, it's pretty charming.

    To be honest, though, a lot of it felt like a compilation of quirky ideas that would have benefited from a little fleshing out. The paragraph-long descriptions of superheroes, for example, would have been more interesting as actual characters with whom the protagonist was forced to interact, rather than merely a clever reappropriation of the mundane as extraordinary.

    Regardless, the story and main characters are interesting as is the author's ideas about what constitutes a superhero. Quirky, clever, charming ... just not long enough.

    Also, and this might seem a strange thing to say, but it's written on absolutely marvelous paper.

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