Dreams, Demons and Desire
By (Author) Wendy Perriam
Peter Owen Publishers
Peter Owen Publishers
1st February 2001
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Short stories
823.914
Paperback
224
A surreal and wry collection of short stories.In her first collection of short stories, Wendy Perriam casts a candid and often humorous eye on the quirks and neuroses of contemporary society. Her characters are, to say the least, diverse: a grief-stricken widow manacled by a set of painted false nails; a son who keeps vigil by his mother's deathbed, fully aware that she isn't his mother; a frustrated painter with an eating problem, and a pregnant young girl who insists she has never had sex and is finally vindicated by a punk angel sporting an eyebrow-stud and a nose-ring. In these 18 compelling stories, dreams are enacted, desires fulfilled, demons exorcised."
Wendy Perriam is one of the most popular and readable writers of women's fiction in recent years. She isthe author of 14 novels."