num_pages: 112
description: The thirty-three flash fictions of Love Stories for Hectic People explore the alignment of beings that is love. There is love that is vulgar love that knows no reason; there is love that cradles the act of living love that springs through the cracks; love that is slaughtered. These tales take place from Italy to Ghana to Greece and London and Tokyo in grainy cities and muted hotel rooms; there is a Mafia murder an ambulance rescue worker and a woman whose husband falls off a mountain. There is unchaste attraction and slippery nuanced love; police violence and porn and fishing too.Praise for Love Stories for Hectic PeopleLike a raconteur in a lamplit Venetian bar McNamara understands the charm and architecture of a tale. These structurally compressed fictions still cover significant ground as one consequence topples like a domino into the next and conflicts modulate between forms. Yet unlike a bar-room raconteur McNamara rarely offers us easy resolutions. Her characters wrestle through their cosmopolitan situations while lust violence and repulsion simmer in the midst of romance sensuality and intimacy. Love Stories for Hectic People is that rare thing  a book that gets better with each re-reading. McNamara has produced in these stylish modern fables a sophisticated study of relationships. She holds up an ornate mirror flecked with shadows.Michael Loveday Three Men on the EdgeCatherine McNamara is one of the best writers Ive read in all the time Ive been in publishing. She can do more in two hundred words than most writers can do in two hundred pages. By turns real funny dark magic ugly and beautiful. This collection rocks.Christopher James Jellyfish ReviewSeductive love evaporating love and sometimes increasingly superb love: its all in these pages. Sharp witty and deeply real these small stories reveal moments of connections and sometimes dissolution. One cant help but be captivated by these many and varied truths as examined by Catherine McNamara  and the conclusion despite the darkness that Love Is an Infinite Victory.Michelle Elvy the everrumbleSometimes quiet and reflective sometimes sensual and visceral these thirty-three short pieces are assured meditations on the foibles and complexities of love  the making and unmaking of it. This collection drifts across continents and cultures slowly unbuttoning aspects of relationships between an eclectic cast of characters and the places they find themselves.K.M. Elkes All That Is Between Us
language: English
title: Love Stories for Hectic People
publisher: Reflex Press