Title: Fifteen modern tales of attraction
First published: 2007
Description: Sexy, tender, funny and haunting by turns, the stories in Alison MacLeod's daring new collection are tales of lovers, would-be lovers and lovers gone wrong. Here we discover ECT patient Gloria, who falls for her anaesthetist, 'Dr Numb'; the cerebral Nick, who chases after the heavily pregnant Katie at an Ikea sale; and the legendary lovers Heloise and Abelard re-imagined for the twenty-first century. With settings that range from a cheap Paris cafe to London's Hayward Gallery, and from the Brighton seafront to the Nova Scotia coast, these stories are at times magical, at times grittily real, but always affecting.
Subjects: Interpersonal attraction, Fiction, Short Stories, Fiction, romance, short stories, Fiction, romance, collections & anthologies, Interpersonal attraction--fiction, Pr6063.a2498 f54 2007, 823/.914
LC classification: PR6063.A2498 F54 2007