Fifteen modern tales of attraction

By Alison MacLeod

Subjects: Interpersonal attraction--fiction, Fiction, romance, short stories, Short Stories, Fiction, Interpersonal attraction, Fiction, romance, collections & anthologies, 823/.914, Pr6063.a2498 f54 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.