Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love
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Book Overview
Funny, tender, quirky, vulnerable, and exquisitely readable, Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love -- in seven virtuoso stories -- explores contemporary relationships with wicked finesse and humor -- perfect for your left-of-center Valentine. Rhodes -- one of Granta's Twenty Best Young British Novelists -- writes some of the world's most idiosyncratically charming, achingly honest stories. In the territory of love, relationships, and sex he has a remarkable skill for poking fun at our rhapsodic moments of longing and heartbreak. A chance encounter prompts an aging professor to regret a lifetime of wasted opportunities; a beautiful wife tests her husband by making herself hideous; for the love of a girl, a boy turns himself into a violoncello; a man encounters a staggeringly lovely woman in a landfill and returns there constantly. . . . Funny, magical, effete, and strange, in these seven short stories Dan Rhodes lays bare the pain and enchantment of love.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1841957380
ISBN13:9781841957388
Release Date:January 2006
Publisher:Canongate Us
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.0" x 7.8"
Customer Reviews
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Tell me the TRUTH about love!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
The many different sides of love: the deep dark side of love, the wild and passionate eroticism and simple pleasures of love unfold in the pages of this fantastic book. A marvel! Rhodes has a knack at illustrating his characters with words - i was able to form sharp mental pictures of the characters in this collection of 7 short stories. Though fictitious and surreal, the characters and storyline in this book mirrors real life. A simple yet profound book - page turner in fact... !
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