The Varieties of Romantic Experience
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by Robert Cohen
Vintage Books: Random House
Due/Published
April 2003, 224 pages,
paper
ISBN
1400031842
New in paper (S03) In the title story of this dazzling comic collection, a psychology professor delivers a lecture that segues into a confession of an embarrassing affair. An elderly man worried that his life is going downhill heads to an Indian casino in hopes of some relief. A recently divorced man arrives half an hour late to a bachelor party to find that the frightened groom has sent everyone else home. A reclusive writer visits a small college at the invitation of a former student, and nothing goes right. Funny and generous, these stories are virtuoso performancesÐmoving forays into disconcertingly familiar territory that line the often slippery boundaries between masculinity and humanity in American life. |
