O careless love
Subtitle: stories and a novella
By: Susan Dodd.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: William Morrow
Published: 1999
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Description: "Susan Dodd explores the multifarious and otherworldly nature of love in a new collection of short stories."--BOOK JACKET.

"Settings ranging from a desolate island in winter to a broken-down city bus at rush hour are the locales for love's unlikely - and often inconvenient - landings in these ten diverse and uncommon stories. An eccentric endodontist repairs a patient's freshly broken heart while performing a root canal. A Haitian woman charms snakes into keeping her company in an urban cave as she safeguards her grandchildren's sleep.

A shy illustrator subsists though a long Vermont winter on occasional glimpses of a man in a blue pickup truck."--BOOK JACKET. "Whether Dodd's characters are on the lookout or on the lam, love is what maps their migrations."--BOOK JACKET.
Table of contents: title: So far you can't imagine; title: The lost art of sleep; title: Lady Chatterley's root canal; title: Ethiopia; title: I married a space alien; title: Lokey man; title: Adult education; title: Song-and-dance man; title: What I remember now; title: In France they turn to stone when they die.