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The stories are populated by “curiously unsympathetic”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/bib/971005.rv102353.html|title=Pure Slaughter Value}}</ref> characters that are “jaded rich kids and yuppies strung out on familial malfeasance and their own immaturity, blocked from satisfaction in either work or love”; a Guardian review considered the stories to be “filled with hatred of the elitist world that spawned its author.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jul/01/fiction.features|title = The life and death of Robert Bingham|date = July 2001}}</ref> |
The stories are populated by “curiously unsympathetic”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/bib/971005.rv102353.html|title=Pure Slaughter Value}}</ref> characters that are “jaded rich kids and yuppies strung out on familial malfeasance and their own immaturity, blocked from satisfaction in either work or love”; a Guardian review considered the stories to be “filled with hatred of the elitist world that spawned its author.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2001/jul/01/fiction.features|title = The life and death of Robert Bingham|date = July 2001}}</ref> |
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<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-48855-6|title = Fiction Book Review: Pure Slaughter Value by Robert Bingham, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-48855-6}}</ref> The New York Times made note of Bingham’s “acute observational powers and clean, reportorial prose.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/bib/971005.rv102353.html|title=Pure Slaughter Value}}</ref> |
<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-385-48855-6|title = Fiction Book Review: Pure Slaughter Value by Robert Bingham, Author Doubleday Books $21.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-385-48855-6}}</ref> The New York Times made note of Bingham’s “acute observational powers and clean, reportorial prose.”<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/bib/971005.rv102353.html|title=Pure Slaughter Value}}</ref> |
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==List of stories== |
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* “Doubles” |
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* “The Fixers” |
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* “How Much For Ho Chi Minh?” |
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* “Preexisting Condition” |
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* “Marriage Is Murder” |
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Latest revision as of 00:33, 17 October 2025
1997 short story collection by American writer Robert Bingham
Pure Slaughter Value (1997) is a collection of 13 short stories by Robert Bingham, which, alongside his novel Lightning on the Sun (published 2000), represents the only works he produced prior to his death in 1999.
The stories are populated by “curiously unsympathetic”[1] characters that are “jaded rich kids and yuppies strung out on familial malfeasance and their own immaturity, blocked from satisfaction in either work or love”; a Guardian review considered the stories to be “filled with hatred of the elitist world that spawned its author.”[2]
[3] The New York Times made note of Bingham’s “acute observational powers and clean, reportorial prose.”[4]
- “I’m Talking About Another House”
- “This Is How A Woman Gets Hit”
- “The Target Audience”
- “Bad Stars”
- “The Other Family”
- “Plus One”
- “Doubles”
- “The Fixers”
- “How Much For Ho Chi Minh?”
- “Preexisting Condition”
- “Marriage Is Murder”
- “Reggae Nights”
- “Pure Slaughter Value”
