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Collection of Stories
Algonquin Books
February 2007
On Sale: January 26, 2007
276 pages ISBN: 1565124855 EAN: 9781565124851 Trade Size
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These eleven arresting, comic, and moving stories by acclaimed writer Michael Parker testify to the driving force of love, the lengths to which weβll go to claim it and pursue it, the delusions weβll float to keep it going, the torment that goes part and parcel with it. And despite all of the above, the absolute necessity of it, no matter its consequences. Whether itβs a college student undone by the boy who leaves her, or the boyfriend intent on leveling old scores from high school for his lover, or the husband who discoversβin the grocery storeβthe woman he should have been with all along, every character, no matter how off track, wants to believe in debt and credit and payback and making the messy worldβand the messy world of loveβturn out neatly.
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