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DONT TELL ME THE TRUTH ABT LOV


en Paperback – feb 2005
A chance encounter prompts an ageing 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... In these seven short stories Dan Rhodes lays bare the pain and enchantment of love.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781841956138
ISBN-10: 1841956139
Pagini: 208
Ilustrații: Illustrations, music
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Main
Editura: Canongate Books Ltd
Locul publicării:United Kingdom

Notă biografică

Dan Rhodes was born in 1972. He is the author of Anthropology, Timoleon Vieta Come Home and Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love, also published by Canongate. In 2003 he was named by Granta Magazine as one of their twenty Best of Young British Novelists. He lives in Edinburgh.

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* By the time you find the story you most relate to, you won't be sorry to be alone after all. The Sun * ...bittersweet yet absurdly magical stories that will pull at your heart strings. By forcing the hitherto unobservable, he shows us an unknown world. ... it's frequently hilarious, and certainly memorable. ...the story turns into a moving dissertation upon the nature and profundity of romantic love, and the all but unbearable effect of its loss...Not until the end do you realise just how good this book is, haunting you long after it has been put down. "For all the picturebook simplicity of Rhodes' storytelling his characters are rarely less than credible, and the emotion genuine. The Times

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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