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101 short stories, all 101 words in length. Romance collides head-on with the comic and surreal in Dan Rhodes's uniquely entertaining first publication. An ingenious series of perfect miniatures of doomed love. With incredible economy -- 101 words exactly -- each story, complete in itself, holds up a cracked mirror to the private peculiarities of human relationships. Meet the woman who uses cider for make-up remover; admire the lover whose field-work with Mongolian gays inspires her to sprout a handlebar moustache; wonder at the caring mother who binds her baby's feet under the misapprehension that he's a girl. Comic monologue meets the discipline of the sonnet writer, filtered by an imagination to rival Lewis Carroll. Sometimes violent, often hilarious, and always surprising, you will not read a more original book this year.
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The micro-fiction classic from Dan Rhodes
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"My girlfriend left me, and I started crying in my sleep. My nightly lament became so loud that my neighbors called the police. The press found out, and people came to stand outside my house to hear me call her name and moan. Television crews arrived, and soon a search was on to find the object of my misery. They tracked her to her new boyfriend's house. I watched the coverage. People were saying they had expected her to be much more beautiful than she was, and that I should pull myself together and stop crying over such an ordinary girl."
In 101 words each, the 101 witty, haunting stories of Anthropology chronicle the search for love in an age preoccupied with sex. Each story is a pure distillation of heartbreak, longing, delusion, and bliss. Each spins speedily, shockingly, to its unpredictable climax. And each is unlike anything you have read before.
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 1841151939
- ISBN 13 9781841151939
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages202
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