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'Master of the new urban American romance' Arena

About the Author

Steve Almond's fiction has appeared in Missouri Review, Playboy, Southern Review, All-Story and Zoetrope. He lives in Boston, where he teaches creative writing at Boston College and Emerson college.

Reviews

Remarkably good... Perverse, poetic, odd... It will leave you feeling quite wonderful
*Guardian*

'Excellent...This is no headbanging memoir of juvenile depravity, but an unashamed handbook to the sustained pursuit of sex
*The Times*

Consistently clever... genuinely memorable
*Boston Globe*

While each tale is original and complete in itself, a beautiful atmosphere of comic melancholy pervades the whole
*Esquire*

Funny, softhearted and hopeful
*Los Angeles Times*

Remarkably good... Perverse, poetic, odd... It will leave you feeling quite wonderful * Guardian *
'Excellent...This is no headbanging memoir of juvenile depravity, but an unashamed handbook to the sustained pursuit of sex * The Times *
Consistently clever... genuinely memorable * Boston Globe *
While each tale is original and complete in itself, a beautiful atmosphere of comic melancholy pervades the whole * Esquire *
Funny, softhearted and hopeful * Los Angeles Times *