| Too Beautiful for You Contributor(s): Liddle, Rod (Author) |
|
 |
ISBN: 140007813X ISBN-13: 9781400078134 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $11.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2006 Annotation: An addled journalist seeks comfort from his wife after losing his girlfriend, who really, was too beautiful for him - just one of the stories about the interweaving lives of a group of Londoners, which are sometimes bizarre but always charged with emotional reality. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Series: Vintage Contemporaries |
| Physical Information: 0.53" H x 5.26" W x 8.1" (0.48 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shameless, deviant, depraved, the characters in Rod Liddle's story collection are just like us--only much, much worse. Dumped by his mistress, Dempsey weeps on his wife's shoulder, wondering how best to kill himself so that at least seven people will try to stop him. Eddie miserably sneaks off to sleep with his wife's mother--a rather unpleasant situation from which he can't seem to extricate himself. And Christian, despite a terrible train accident and medical disaster, must just make it to Uttoxeter before he is caught in a horrible lie. Disturbingly funny, psychologically astute, and sharp as a knife, this collection of stories reveals the dark heart of human compulsion. |