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Fifteen modern tales of attraction / Alison MacLeod.

by MacLeod, Alison, 1964-

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Hamish Hamilton, c2007.

Interpersonal attraction -- Fiction.

9780141016061 (trade pbk.)

014101606X (trade pbk.)

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15 modern tales of attraction

209 p. ; 20 cm.

so that the land was darkened -- Sacred Heart -- Live wire -- E-Love: Heloise & Abelard -- Dirty weekend -- The knowledge of penises -- Pilot -- Discharge -- Coupling -- Notes for a chaotic century -- Where there is milk, where there is honey -- The will writer -- Rosie's tongue -- Life and soul -- Radiant heat.

Sexy, tender, funny and haunting by turns, the stories in Alison MacLeod's daring 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 café 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.

Short stories, Canadian.

Canadian fiction.

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