The Flaw Of Love
Lauren Grodstein
  • Published: 1 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099463429
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.00

The Flaw Of Love

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'A COMPELLING NOVEL - A WISTFUL TALE OF MODERN LOVE' DAILY MAIL

Joel Miller's girlfriend has locked herself into the bathroom with a pregnancy test. Joel hasn't planned to be a father, he's not even sure he wants to be one, but as of a couple of hours ago it's a very real possibility. Lisa isn't the love of Miller's life - theirs is a relationship which happened by accident rather than by design - but Miller realises that he might now be bound to her forever. And so, while his future is decided for him behind a closed door, he tries to make sense of his past. Complicated memories come back, many of them buried for a good reason, of a turbulent childhood and his parents' dysfunctional marriage, of his complex father and difficult, unpredictable mother. But, most of all, he thinks about his failed relationship with the unforgettable, unconventional Blair, the woman he loved most of all ...
  • Published: 1 June 2005
  • ISBN: 9780099463429
  • Imprint: Arrow
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 320
  • RRP: $22.00
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About the author

Lauren Grodstein

Lauren Grodstein is the author of a collection of short stories The Best of Animals (Persea, 2002) and a novel Reproduction is the Flaw of Love, which was both a Breakout Book selection from Amazon.com and a Border's New Voices pick in the US. Her work has been translated into German, Italian and French. She attended Columbia University and received her MFA in Creative Writing at Columbia's School of the Arts. Lauren currently teaches creative writing at Rutgers University. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and young son.

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Praise for The Flaw Of Love

An amazing debut, by turns truly funny, sad and sexy. At once literary and unputdownable, The Flaw of Love demands attention and deserves to be read

Ink

A confident and competent debut ... a tale of fears, commitment, immaturity, troubled pasts and doubtful futures, elegantly written and enigmatic to the end

Cities to Cities

Agile prose and clever observations.

The New York Times Review of Books

Grodstein captures the uncertain nuances of the mating game in her impressive debut collection ... Grodstein's quirky voice and sassy, ironic humor make these stories come alive.

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