We so seldom look on love - Barbara Gowdy

Now in paperback, this masterfully crafted story collection by the author of the
internationally best-selling novel Mister Sandman is a haunting book that is certain
to both disturb and entertain. With a particular focus on obsession and the abnormal,
We So Seldom Look On Love explores life at its quirky extremes, pushing past limits
of convention into lives that are fantastic and heartbreakingly real. Whether writing
about the dilemma of a two-headed man who attempts to expunge his own pain, the shock
of a woman who discovers she has married a transsexual, the erotic delusions of a
woman who repeatedly exposes her body to an unknown voyeur, or the bizarre predilections
of a female necrophile (a story made into the acclaimed motion picture, "Kissed"),
Gowdy convinces us with incisive detail, only to disarm us with black humor.