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PUBLISHER: Freight Books
FORMAT: Paperback
ISBN: 9781908754165
RRP: £8.99
PAGES: 240
PUBLICATION DATE:
April 2, 2013
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LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation
A lads’ weekend in Eastern Europe spirals out of control. A bleeding tourist is rescued by a stranger in downtown Toronto. A middle-aged woman holidaying in Tunisia considers the local options for love. An unemployed man shares his fantasies of a sex tour of Arizona with his long-suffering girlfriend. A woman is drawn into an impromptu but life-changing football game in the heart of the Amazon. Following his universally acclaimed third novel, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, Somerset Maugham Award-winner, Rodge Glass, has created a themed, contemporary story collection like no other. With wit, wisdom, insight and pathos, he examines men and women of all ages who, through the advent of discount air travel, play out their lives and loves across the globe. Glass brilliantly captures the isolation, dislocation and occasional epiphanies of those who find themselves a thousand miles from home, and those who long to be.
Reviews of LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the EasyJet Generation
"Brilliant writing, the variety of locales, and the bold portrayal of character will delight short story and literary-fiction readers and may create demand for Glass' previous novels." –"Booklist "
Rodge Glass
Rodge Glass was born in Manchester and educated at the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, where he received both an MLitt and PhD. He has published three novels, No Fireworks (Faber), Hope for Newborns (Faber) and Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs (Tindal Street), a literary biography Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury), which won a Somerset Maugham Award, a graphic novel, Dougie’s War (Freight) and has edited two collections of stories, The Year of Open Doors (Cargo) and Second Lives (Cargo). Having spent fifteen years in Glasgow, he is now Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Edge Hill University, Lancashire, and lives in Manchester. He regularly appears at literary festivals and events throughout the UK, as well as on TV and radio.