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A compulsively entertaining collection about men and women, both neurotic and obsessive, searching for love in modern America.
Book Title
Kissing You
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- “A compelling and often hilarious dissection of narcissism in our time.”—San Francisco Chronicle
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It's always struck me as extraordinary that you can tell someone that you have a secret, let's say this one secret, and it absolutely takes the wind out of them if you don't reveal it right there on the spot, people think it's the height of impropriety if you say you have a secret and then don't tell it, but my feeling's always been that if you tell it, then you don't have it any longer....
In Daniel Hayes's hilarious debut collection, people are looking for partners, love, and sex, and with varying degrees of embarrassment, they reveal all. Continually stumbling upon obstacles of their own making, they battle strange obsessions, neurotic fears, secrets real and imagined. After a difficult breakup, Colleen has visions-not of God, but of Bob Hope gently wagging his finger at her. A man doesn't understand why "stalking" has to be such an ugly word. And a woman learns that her fiancé is as opaque and superficial as the filling of the Hostess Twinkie in which he presented her engagement ring.
Outlandish, romantic, and sexy, the stories in Kissing You are compulsively entertaining. Daniel Hayes narrows the space of uncomfortable unfamiliarity between people and ultimately finds that "yes, strangers are what you really are."
In Daniel Hayes's hilarious debut collection, people are looking for partners, love, and sex, and with varying degrees of embarrassment, they reveal all. Continually stumbling upon obstacles of their own making, they battle strange obsessions, neurotic fears, secrets real and imagined. After a difficult breakup, Colleen has visions-not of God, but of Bob Hope gently wagging his finger at her. A man doesn't understand why "stalking" has to be such an ugly word. And a woman learns that her fiancé is as opaque and superficial as the filling of the Hostess Twinkie in which he presented her engagement ring.
Outlandish, romantic, and sexy, the stories in Kissing You are compulsively entertaining. Daniel Hayes narrows the space of uncomfortable unfamiliarity between people and ultimately finds that "yes, strangers are what you really are."
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- “Rigorous, innovative, seductive, the work in Kissing You isn’t just promising. It’s fully accomplished.”—The Seattle Times
- "Hayes writes beatifully and brightly."—Rain Taxi Review of Books
- "A wide sampling from a promising talent."—Kirkus Reviews
- “Kissing You is an intricately linked collection of stories which, piece by piece, explores different relations of intimacy: between lovers, between pop culture and the consumer, between writer and reader. Hayes breaks down distinctions between public and private realms and, in so doing, could not be more relevant, more provocative, more disrespectful. I admire this book immensely.”—David Shields
