by Donald Antrim (Author)
In elegant, precise prose Donald Antrim crafts funny, tender stories of men and women disorientated by love, loss, and bouts of sorrow. An unfaithful husband goes out to buy flowers for his wife, while across town a new couple, both survivors of difficult childhoods, find comfort together in other people's apartments. On the edge of a university campus, a group of students are brought together by their ageing drama professor, whose predilection for pot and crush on his star pupil threaten to tip their performance of A Midsummer Night's Dream into a surreal and dangerous farce. And in the title story, a bereaved art teacher drives into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia intending to throw away his ex-girlfriend's paintings.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
Edition: 01
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 03 Sep 2015
ISBN 10: 1847086519
ISBN 13: 9781847086518
Book Overview: Emotionally exquisite, beautifully written short stories from a celebrated master of the form