This volume is a set of 101 short stories, all 101 words in length, centred around the topic of doomed love. There is one about a woman who uses cider for make-up remover and another about a lover whose field-work with Mongolian gays inspires her to sprout a handlebar moustache.
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The micro-fiction classic from Dan Rhodes
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story number 13 from Anthropology
"My girlfriend left me, and I started crying in my sleep. My nightly lament became so loud that my neighbors called the police. The press found out, and people came to stand outside my house to hear me call her name and moan. Television crews arrived, and soon a search was on to find the object of my misery. They tracked her to her new boyfriend's house. I watched the coverage. People were saying they had expected her to be much more beautiful than she was, and that I should pull myself together and stop crying over such an ordinary girl."
In 101 words each, the 101 witty, haunting stories of Anthropology chronicle the search for love in an age preoccupied with sex. Each story is a pure distillation of heartbreak, longing, delusion, and bliss. Each spins speedily, shockingly, to its unpredictable climax. And each is unlike anything you have read before.
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- PublisherFourth Estate Ltd
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1841151947
- ISBN 13 9781841151946
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages208
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