Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love

Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love
Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love  
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1st edition (UK)
Author(s) Dan Rhodes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Short stories
Publisher 4th Estate (UK)
Publication date 2001
Media type Print & ebook
Pages 192
ISBN 1-84115-195-5

Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love is a short story collection by British author Dan Rhodes, first published in 2001 by Fourth Estate (HarperCollins). It was the first book written by the author while he was living on London Road, Sheffield between 1996 and 1997, but was his second book published. It has since been translated into five languages.[1]

It contains seven stories :-

  1. "The Carolingian Period" : An architecture professor giving a tutorial on "Ecclesiastical structures of the Carolingian Period" (including music by Terry Edwards) is suddenly struck by the beauty of the young student before him and longs to be young again...
  2. "The Violoncello" : Set in modern day Vietnam it concerns Ngoc, a talented self-taught cellist, who three days a week practices on the steps of the Library of Social Sciences. She draws a regular crowd to hear her, amongst them is Tuan who becomes enfatuated with Ngoc and determines to become her 'cello...
  3. "Glass Eyes" : Deep in a forest a young man sleeps on a heart shaped bed with his older one-eyed lover. She asks him if he will show his love for her by becoming like her and asks him to give her his left eye...
  4. "Mademoiselle Arc-en-ciel": A man and his landlord both fall in love with a beautiful neighbour...
  5. "Landfill" : In which a man breaks into a landfill site to dispose of his rubbish and meets a beautiful woman and returns again and again to see her again. But the woman is obsessed with landfill...
  6. "The Painting" : In a clearing deep in the woods an artist paints a staggeringly beautiful picture of a woman. All who see it are unable to take their eyes off and never escape...
  7. "Beautiful Consuela" : A woman tests the love of her husband to destruction...

References

  1. ^ http://danrhodes.wordpress.com/books/dont-tell-me-the-truth-about-love/

External links

v · d · eWorks by Dan Rhodes
Collections

Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories (2000)  · Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love (2001)
Novels

Timoleon Vieta Come Home (2003)  · Gold (2007)  · Little Hands Clapping (2010)
As "Danuta de Rhodes"

The Little White Car (2004)

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