The Varieties of Romantic Experience

By Robert Cohen

Book Overview

In these ten stories, the author of the widely acclaimed "Inspired Sleep" applies his dazzling style and trademark wit to a group of men poised between revelation and despair. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400031842
• ISBN13: 9781400031849
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Vintage
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Amazing

Lost in the gears of the next new fiction thing publicity machine, with its late show hype & trendiness, there are writers whose work burns with intelligence, wit & inspiration--and maybe for that reason, doesn't get the sustained attention that it deserves. Cohen is that kind of writer. His fiction is always smart, always funny & always moving. Start with these stories--all quite different, all in their own way astonishing--then track down his wonderful novel,INSPIRED SLEEP, & you'll recall why you used to love reading so much. Rob Cohen is a fiction writer in full stride, and it's a shame someone so good is not being read & quoted on a daily basis.

Crisp , very interesting, great plots, gr8 language

This is a great collection of short stories, snapshots of lives of ordinary, but of course unique people struggling to move forward in life. The use of language is masterful. Although I am not a writer, I am somehow envious of Cohen for the clarity and color of his wit and writing.I really liked this book and plan to buy Cohen's other books.