Author: Alexander McCall Smith
Publisher: Penguin
Year: 2004
Language: English
Pages: 200
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0143031880
Description
From the creator of The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency comes a medley of perverse couplings, casual dates and romantic encounters: hilarious tales that will sadden, inspire and surprise. McCall Smith, a master of the unexpected and a seamless storyteller, revels in offering us the quirky complications inherent in entanglements which human beings engineer for themselves-entanglement that can be shocking, unedifying, complex and sometimes, completely disastrous.
REVIEWS
I haven’t read anything with such unalloyed pleasure for a long time.
-Sunday Telegraph
Reminiscent of Roald Dahl in their dark ironies, these tales of the emotional unexpected are perceptive, deftly written and droll.
-Michel Faber, author of The Crimson Petal and the White
The people who inhabit these stories are funny, shocking, middle-class and sinister, the author’s wacky imagination being the only constant we can always take for granted.
-Scotsman
Contents
Wonderful Date
Nice Little Date
Bulawayo
Far North
Intimate Accounts
Calwarra
Fat Date
Maternal Influence
Heavenly Date