Bad News of the Heart

A seeing-eye dog leads a blind man into a frozen river, a southern Baptist loses his memory and finds true love in Bel Air, an obese dot.com executive has "anorgasmic" latex sex with her CEO, and a homeless man in New York creates an intellectual universe based on Post-it notes stuck to the inside of his cardboard box shelter--Douglas Glover's stories are wildly inventive, deadpan comedies of our universal human catastrophe. They are sly, demanding and wise--stories about language, desire and love (in a very dark place). The humor veers from the wry and sardonic to the salacious, mordant and playful. And always there are moments of such stark emotional intimacy that the reader slides, almost without noticing, from laughter to lament.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Published: 04/01/2003
ISBN: 9781564782861
Pages: 212
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.62h x 5.56w x 0.64d

Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2003 pg. 415
New York Times 05/18/2003 pg. 36
Library Journal 05/15/2003 pg. 130
Publishers Weekly 04/21/2003 pg. 41