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Synopsis
This is a collection of short stories in which Dan Rhodes takes fables, spins them into suburban romances and twists domestic cosiness into mythical combat. "Love for a Vietnamese" cellist drives a man to transform himself into her cello. In another, love is found on a council refuse site.
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'You won't find a finer collection of short love stories anywhere in the land. *****' Jockey Slut
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... funny, magical and strange, in these seven short stories Dan Rhodes lays bare the pain and enchantment of love.
'Often macabre, always musical, Rhodes flirts with laugh-out-loud absurdity but stays in close contact with pathos... his arch, askew take on the heart's muddle flourishes.' Uncut
'Rhodes's stories blow through the cobwebs of a much-handled subject like fresh air.' Observer
'Extremely readable - thought-provoking as well as entertaining.' Times Literary Supplement
'The beauty of his writing is persuasive and his themes are universal.' The Times
'Is there a more innovative, but also intensely readable, writer than Dan Rhodes working in Britain today?' Big Issue
About the Author
Dan Rhodes is twenty-eight and this is his second book. It follows his previous collection of short stories - Anthropology - two of which were selected by Tibor Fisher for the Vintage collection New Writing (March 1999). His first novel will come next.
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- PublisherFourth Estate
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1841151955
- ISBN 13 9781841151953
- BindingHardcover
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