Eating naked
Subtitle: stories
By: Stephen Dobyns.
Edition: lst ed.
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "The sixteen stories in Eating Naked range from surreal to poignant, from chilling to comic. At the center of them all are men and women challenged by their own uncontrollable, illogical natures: poets with free-floating guilt, spouses with unacceptable sexual compulsions, farmers with midlife crises, gas men with erratic timetables.

Marriages unravel, well-laid plans dissolve, and placid lives are turned upside down by something unforeseen - be it as mundane as a chance conversation, as inevitable as death, as improbable as a murderous pig."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: A happy vacancy; title: Eating naked; title: Part of the story; title: The Chaucer professor; title: The cedar bungalow; title: The pity of it; title: Kansas; title: Some changes coming; title: Out on the water; title: With Franz and Jane; title: Devil's Island; title: Black ashes; title: Dead men don't need safe sex; title: So I guess you know what I told him; title: Flaws in the latex; title: Cynthia, my sister.