We So Seldom Look on Love: A Collection of Stories (Flamingo originals) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

We So Seldom Look on Love: A Collection of Stories (Flamingo originals) Book

From the author of the blockbuster Mister Sandman comes a gathering of unusual characters captured in the outrageous and humorous situations for which Barbara Gowdy has become famous. Teasing the taboos, Gowdy creates a marriage dialogue between a woman and her transsexual fiancé, who she thought was a man, and litigation between Samuel and Simon who share the same two-headed body. She peoples her stories with Siamese twins, a necrophile, and a pathetically lonely exhibitionist. And she brilliantly illustrates how uncomfortably close a connection comedy has to human suffering. The title story has been adapted into a movie called "Kissed. Read More

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  • Product Description

    A debut collection of short stories by the author of the novel "Falling Angels". Populated by an assortment of freaks, Siamese twins, voyeurs, exhibitionists, necrophiles and transsexuals, this collection of extraordinary, bizarre and often grotesque stories is shot through with humorous sympathy.

  • 0006545491
  • 9780006545491
  • Barbara Gowdy
  • 5 January 1998
  • Flamingo
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 256
  • Film tie-in edition (Reissue)
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