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Funny, sharp,
strange and seeped in melancholy... Rhodes’ assured stories
drop us with ease into his unique universe.
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You won’t
find a finer collection of short love stories anywhere in the
land. Rhodes’ slightly surreal and timeless tales subtly
show off his mastery of the English language as he refuses to
waste a syllable. All in all, one of those rare collections
that, although grotesque, make the heart sing. Really. *****
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Anthropology
was both funny and unsettling. Don’t Tell Me The Truth
About Love carries on from there. These are fairy tales written
in the detached, ethereal tones of the brothers Grimm, with
an elegant simplicity that lets you find the humour if you want
to. Needless to say, none of these cautionary tales ends happily
ever after, but Rhodes’s narrative skill, his clear diagrams
and his wrong-footing humour sweeten the pill immeasurably.
The Telegraph |
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Is there a
more innovative, but also intensely readable, writer than Dan
Rhodes working in Britain today?
The Big Issue |
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Dan Rhodes’
Don’t Tell Me The Truth About Love is another example of
a modern writer prepared to take risks with the form, and the
stories here are almost as ethereal as love itself.
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...set somewhere
between Boccaccio and Hans Christian Andersen but with the eroticism
and sometimes physical disgust out in the open. Each (story)
operates in a self-contained world which then seems to leak
through to ours... Love might be a no-win situation, but it
is also a secular vision – a sort of Eden with bear-traps.
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A stunning
collection... Buy it for anyone you care about, including yourself.
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...all extremely
readable - thought provoking as well as entertaining. As a young
British writer dealing with love in a whimsical, serio-comic
mode, Rhodes clearly risks being tarred with the same brush
as Alain de Botton. Fortunately he is too skillful a storyteller
for such an unflattering comparison to hold true.
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A variety
of strange and beautiful women drift in and out of these stories,
which are both bizarre and very funny. Rhodes is clearly destined
for bigger things.
The Dubliner |
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It is brave
of Rhodes to buck the trend for realism... the beauty of his
writing is persuasive and his themes are universal.
The Times |
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The best new
writer in Britain.
Stewart Lee,
The Guardian |
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Often macabre,
always musical, Rhodes flirts with laugh-out-loud absurdity
but stays in close contact with pathos... his arch, askew take
on the heart’s muddle flourishes.
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A supremely
talented writer.
Glasgow Evening
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Full of the
strangest, most original stories about the oldest subject, love,
ever written.
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Strange? Yeah,
well so is love...
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The music
in the story The Carolingian Period was written by Terry
Edwards.
The author himself is responsible for the extraordinary artwork
in the story Landfill.
ALL EDITIONS
JAPAN, Chuokoron-Shinisa, ISBN: 4122047390
This is perhaps the most wonderful jacket of any Dan Rhodes
book. Maybe even of any book ever. The picture depicts Beautiful
Consuela from the final story in the collection, and each of
the seven hearts represents a story in the book. The artist
is Yoko Tanji, and more of her work can be viewed here.
UK, F***** E*****. ISBN: 1841151955
There’s not much to say about this hardback, except that
it contains an error on page 9 - "professor man" should
read simply "professor". It’s an in-house look-alike
of the hardback of Anthropology. Better editions are available.
UK, Canongate. ISBN 1841956139
This is the third and current edition, and is wildly preferable
to the one above.
NETHERLANDS, Vassallucci. ISBN: 9050003605
Here it is, in Dutch.
UK, F***** E*****. ISBN: 1841151963
This was the second UK edition. It’s a step up in quality
from the blue one, but still not as good as the red one. We
still recommend the red one.
ITALY, Garzanti. ISBN: 8811665094
The inventors of romance get their own edition.
FINLAND, Sammakko. ISBN: 9525194906
Ah, the lovely Sammakko, with their cracking list and logo.
See their sleepy frog here.
JAPAN, Andrews Press. ISBN: 4901868225
Another lovely back-to-front edition. This was the first publication
of DTMTTAL in Japan.
MISSING EDITIONS: Sometimes
editions take their time appearing, or fall through the cracks
completely. Hopefully Oceano in Mexico will one day publish
DTMTTAL, and Fed Ex will finally deliver the US edition to us…
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