A young boy discovers the ambiguity of adult affection. A camp comedian cracks up on stage. A picture-restorer learns to accept her husband's true nature. A prisoner confronts the unbridgeable gap between 'town' and 'gown'. A travel agent tastes the mysterious power of the Internet. A honeymoon couple take an unconventional route to love.
Michael Arditti's dazzling collection of stories employs a host of remarkable characters and a range of original voices to take an uncompromising look at love and loss in the twenty-first century. These twelve stories of contentment and confusion, defiance and desire, are marked by all the wit, compassion and insight that distinguish this award-winning author's novels.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Michael Arditti's dazzling collection of stories employs a host of remarkable characters and a range of original voices to take an uncompromising look at love and loss in the twenty-first century. These twelve stories of contentment and confusion, defiance and desire, are marked by all the wit, compassion and insight that distinguish this award-winning author's novels.
Genre: Literary Fiction
Praise for this book
"[These stories] simply and elegantly break your heart. They deserve a wide audience, and will create a wiser one." - Amanda Craig
"The diverse, urbane stories here ARE good, some of them are fun, and others are far from clean." - Shena Mackay
"The diverse, urbane stories here ARE good, some of them are fun, and others are far from clean." - Shena Mackay
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