Product Description: Offering a wry, sharp, and unfailingly honest look at marital life (and strife), in 79 (very) short stories. Rhodes’s deft use of language spares no emotion and leaves no romantic stone unturned—husbands, wives, lovers, and all combinations thereof are ripe for the picking (and choosing)...read more

Product Description: A twisted romantic comedy from one of the most distinctive writers aroundIn Paris, art student Aurélie Renard throws a stone and sets in motion a chain of events that will turn her life upside down. Suddenly finding herself in sole charge of a stranger's baby, and with no idea how babies work, it's only thanks to the help of her adoring professor and her gun-toting heartbreaker of a best friend that Aurélie is able to navigate her way through the most extraordinary and calamitous seven days of her life...read more

Miyuki Woodward, on vacation at the same seaside town in Wales she goes to every year, takes part in the most turbulent events the village has seen, following an impulsive artistic act involving gold spray paint. Original.

An intriguing collection of 101 short stories--each one 101 words long--explores the complex mysteries, ecstasy, and anguish of love in all its diverse forms. A first collection. Reprint.

My girlfriend is so beautiful that she has never had cause to develop any kind of personality. People are always wildly glad to see her, even though she does little more than sit around and smoke. She's getting prettier, too.

Living in self-imposed exile for all but one day per month, during which he engages in debauchery, an aging composer propositions young men, one of whom tests the composer's relationship with a faithful dog and causes the pet's accidental abandonment in Rome. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

The author of Anthropology and Timoleon Vieta Come Home tranforms his remarkable skill of poking fun at rhapsodic moments of longing and heartbreak into a collection of seven charming, achingly honest short stories that lay bare the pain and enchantment of love. Original.

Captures the universal search for love in contemporary English society through one man's experiences with the opposite sex, in a collection of 101 stories at 101 words each.