false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172184435m/147108.jpg 147108 4 <div>Funny, tender, quirky, vulnerable, and exquisitely readable, Don&#8217;t Tell Me the Truth About Love &#8212; in seven virtuoso stories &#8212; explores contemporary relationships with wicked finesse and humor &#8212; perfect for your left-of-center Valentine. Rhodes &#8212; one of Granta&#8217;s Twenty Best Young British Novelists &#8212; writes some of the world&#8217;s most idiosyncratically charming, achingly honest stories. In the territory of love, relationships, and sex he has a remarkable skill for poking fun at our rhapsodic moments of longing and heartbreak.<br>A chance encounter prompts an aging professor to regret a lifetime of wasted opportunities; a beautiful wife tests her husband by making herself hideous; for the love of a girl, a boy turns himself into a violoncello; a man encounters a staggeringly lovely woman in a landfill and returns there constantly. . . . Funny, magical, effete, and strange, in these seven short stories Dan Rhodes lays bare the pain and enchantment of love. </div> 1008492 2001 Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love total:54|5:9|4:30|3:11|2:3|1:1| 54 205 78 10 4 1 false false Sun Feb 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Jan 30 15:44:08 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 15 13:07:53 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 18:23:26 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 04 19:06:45 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 12 07:50:20 -0700 2008 Thu Mar 13 02:46:21 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun May 31 18:56:08 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 02 09:08:31 -0700 2009 Anthropology, but it's been somewhat downhill from there. I keep really wanting to like his books.]]> 5 0 false false Tue Mar 11 21:49:21 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 11 21:51:14 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Thu Jul 26 12:59:24 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 26 12:59:24 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Mar 25 20:37:58 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 20:40:52 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Wed Jul 18 23:58:02 -0700 2007 Thu Jul 19 00:00:19 -0700 2007 4 0 false false Tue Oct 23 15:07:21 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 20 01:00:22 -0800 2007 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Fri Nov 16 07:49:33 -0800 2007 Fri Nov 16 07:52:34 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Wed Nov 25 14:17:37 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 25 14:17:37 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Thu Nov 19 15:05:58 -0800 2009 Thu Nov 19 15:05:58 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Sat Nov 07 14:45:10 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 14:45:10 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 06 11:20:36 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 11:20:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Thu Jul 30 08:52:11 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 30 08:52:11 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Thu Jul 23 07:41:46 -0700 2009 Sat Jul 18 08:50:22 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 23 07:41:46 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon May 18 22:38:32 -0700 2009 Mon May 18 22:38:40 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Sun May 17 12:26:31 -0700 2009 Sun May 17 12:26:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Mon Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Sun Apr 26 02:36:31 -0700 2009 Sun Apr 26 02:36:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Mar 29 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:09:57 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 01 07:10:27 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=147108