Interior Design: Stories

by Philip Graham and Alex Brown

The eight short stories in Interior Design, a collection by Philip Graham, author of the novel How to Read an Unwritten Language, are built on seemingly simple plots. But invariably a twist of the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684803720
• ISBN13: 9780684803722
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Scribner Book Company
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

strange but touching

in this disturbing novel philip graham covers many aspects of people. there are eight stories: another planet, angel, interior design, beauty marks, the pose, the reverse, geology, and lucky "another planet" is about a family trying to cope with their father's failing shoe buisness "angel" is about an orphaned boy and his obsession with his angel with whom he attempts to describe his entire life to "interior design" is about an extremely creative woman who becomes increasingly fed up with her none-to creative lover and her attempt at getting him to express his feelings "beauty marks" tells about the secrets of a village a young american couple goes to live in to experience the native's life. they discover a secret that is known only by the villagers. this story is my favorite "the pose" is about a woman and man seperatly trying to recreate a pose the women was in in a picture taken when they had a better relationship "the reverse" is about an aspiring actress who gets hired for a commercial where she plays a character that is exactly the opposite of her "geology" is a tragic story of a woman who falls deeply in love with a man, but later discovers she was really in love with the ideas his job in geology presented to her "lucky" is about a man that sells old-fashioned clothes to his customers, who are all dying this book is very tragic and disturbing, but presents views on life that you probably never thought of!