This blistering new collection from literary rising star Stephen Elliottdemonstrates once again why his books have been praised as gracefulsoaring and fearless.... » 

This blistering new collection from literary rising star Stephen Elliottdemonstrates once again why his books have been praised as gracefulsoaring and fearless. As with all of Elliotts work these stories havethe raw ring of truth filtered through the authors downbeatpoeticsensibility. My Girlfriend Comes to the City and Beats Me Up follows thenarrator on a dizzying ride through past and present from a group home fortroubled adolescents in Chicago where he loses his virginity to shootinggalleries and homeless encampments in San Francisco where he searches fordeeper and darker thrills. In Other Desires a flood of unsettling memoriesbackgrounds the narrators involvement with a looseknit family of lost souls.Tears explores the disturbing complexities of an SM Internet hookup.Several of the stories feature the enigmatic Eden the narrators polyamorousmistress. With My Girlfriend Elliott confirms his status as a major youngwriter of a kind of literary fiction that recalls the work of Genet andBukowski. «