16 Categories of Desire

16 Categories of Desire maps the human heart in all its passion, valour, ineptitude, and vulnerability. These eleven stories are populated by scientists and eccentrics, writers and wastrels, all looking fervently for love in its many guises. Some long for the unattainable; others struggle with the compulsion to destroy love before it�s taken from them. Occasionally scabrous, horrifically funny, intermittently appalling, and wildly erotic, the stories in 16 Categories of Desire bring to life a world in which a screen of irony may be the only defence against fear and loneliness.

About the author

Douglas Glover was recipient of the 2006 Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award for his body of work. His bestselling novel Elle won the Governor-General's Award and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A Guide to Animal Behaviour was a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General's Award, and 16 Categories of Desire was shortlisted for the 2000 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Glover
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2000
• EAN: 9780864923141
• ISBN: 978-0-86492-314-1
• No. of pages: 186
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 252 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature