Bad News of the Heart

by Douglas Glover

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1564782867
• ISBN13: 9781564782861
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.6" x 8.6"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

achingly hypnotic stories

This is an author with incisive eye for the convoluted entanglements of human relationships and a rare compassion for the downtrodden. His stories create worlds that reverberate with a painful tenderness, humor and an engulfing sense of longing, expressed in exquisite prose. It was a great surprise to finally discover one of his books on US bookshelves-I hope this brings more of Glover's work to the US.