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    The Brutal Language of Love

    Alicia Erian

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    Alicia Erian's deliciously grown-up debut may not be a book for nice girls, but it has a lot to teach us about the unruly nature of desire. A college-bound student plots to lose her virginity to a pizza waiter, a spelling champion spends her afternoons in the bath with the classroom bully and a newlywed finds herself strangely drawn to her husband's father. Bold, achingly funny and never less than heartfelt, these are stories about women who dare to grasp at experience in the knowledge that they may live to regret it. THE BRUTAL LANGUAGE OF LOVE announces the arrival of a true and highly original voice in American fiction.

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    Praise for The Brutal Language of Love

    • Erian is a very gifted writer indeed... These addictively dark tales are very reminiscent of Milan Kundera's 1968 short story collection, Laughable Loves. Above all, they linger in the mind - The List

    • Very readable - The Big Issue

    • Extremely interesting... Erian's writing is bold, visceral, fierce and flamboyant - Yorkshire Evening Press

    • 'A revelation. Rude, unusual and extremely funny - Ms London

    • Funny, provocative and sometimes plain rude, this is a book not to be missed - Wiltshire Times

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    Alicia Erian

    Alicia Erian

    Alicia Erian was born in New York to an Egyptian father and American mother. She has worked as a film director and screenwriter, and has attracted interest from Julia Roberts' production company, and Francis Ford Coppola. Alicia has lived in London and Ireland, and briefly worked in Books Etc., Charing Cross.

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