Things that pass for love
Subtitle: stories
By: by Allison Amend.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: OV Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago, IL
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9780976717744
Subjects: Short stories, American.; Love stories.
Description: "Things That Pass for Love eschews the familiar dating scene in favor of portrayals of fractured families, urban schools, small towns, book clubs, cults, academia, golf culture, and - yes - sex in modern life. A teacher struggles to bond with jaded students as bodies drop from the sky; a man meets his illegitimate son for an awkward pumpkin picking excursion; a professor develops a sexual obsession with the student destined to surpass him; and a female cyberotica writer looks for conventionality in the form of a suitor who may be in love with her dog."--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Dominion over every erring thing; title: Carry the water, hustle the hole; title: The world tastes good; title: A personal matter; title: Blugrass banjo; title: The cult of me; title: Good shabbos; title: The people you know best; title: Sometimes it's like that; title: The Janus gate; title: What was over there is over here; title: How much greater the miracle; title: And then there was Claire.