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<p><p>In this debut collection of eight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honesty and compassion with hilarious dialogue&#151;bringing together the comic milieu of David Sedaris with the spot-on perceptions of Adam Haslett&#8217;s You Are Not a Stranger Here. With &#147;ONJ.com,&#8221; a young woman in advertising decides she wants a gay man in her life, almost as if she were shopping for a poodle. Unluckily, the gay man she finds, a good-looking and fast-talking freelancer, isn&#8217;t as pleasant and &#147;fun&#8221; as she had hoped. In the loopy &#147;Dunford,&#8221; a lonely, aging architect with a suppressed fascination for female escorts decides impulsively to take the opportunity of his wife&#8217;s absence to set up a date. Sadly for Dunford, he realizes too late that his escort doesn&#8217;t share his penchant for masturbation in car washes. Quieter notes are sounded in &#147;Foray&#8221; about a bookish teenaged recluse discovering an unexpected emotional connection to his family after his mother asks him to read Moby Dick to his young, mentally retarded cousin. And &#147;Nightwalking&#8221; centers on a woman sleepwalker whose mother&#8217;s death

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Author

McIntyre, Vestal

Publisher

New York : Carroll & Graf Publishers ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780786714339

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Short Stories

Rating

3.92 / 5 (93 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13