The Body (and Seven Stories)

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 266. Original pictorial laminated boards; orange endpapers. As issued, without dustwrapper.

A middle-aged playwright embarks on an odyssey of physical hedonism, having accepted an offer to have his mind transported into a younger body for six months. A collection of stories including the titular novella, The Body, which explores personal identity and the extent to which it is rooted in our physical being.

Of the rest, "Hullabaloo in the Tree" was first published in the Guardian, "Face to Face with You" was first published in The Black Book, "Goodbye, Mother" was first published in Granta, "Remember This Moment, Remember Us" was first published in Red, while "Touched" was first published in The New Yorker.

"A fluent, socially observant writer whose sentences move with intelligence and wit." –The New York Times Book Review