Don't Tell Me the Truth about Love
Dan Rhodes
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Dan RhodesPublisher: Canongate UsPublished: 01/04/2006ISBN: 9781841957388Pages: 208Weight: 0.45lbsSize: 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.56dReview Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/09/2006 pg. 34New York Times 02/26/2006 pg. 14
Book Title
Don't Tell Me the Truth about Love
ISBN
9781841957388
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Dan Rhodes
Publisher: Canongate Us
Published: 01/04/2006
ISBN: 9781841957388
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.56d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/09/2006 pg. 34
New York Times 02/26/2006 pg. 14
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Dan Rhodes
Publisher: Canongate Us
Published: 01/04/2006
ISBN: 9781841957388
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.56d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/09/2006 pg. 34
New York Times 02/26/2006 pg. 14
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Dan Rhodes
Publisher: Canongate Us
Published: 01/04/2006
ISBN: 9781841957388
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.56d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/09/2006 pg. 34
New York Times 02/26/2006 pg. 14
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Dan Rhodes
Publisher: Canongate Us
Published: 01/04/2006
ISBN: 9781841957388
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.00w x 0.56d
Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 01/09/2006 pg. 34
New York Times 02/26/2006 pg. 14