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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.
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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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- PublisherCanongate U.S.
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1841957380
- ISBN 13 9781841957388
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages191
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