The stories in The Manet Girl explore sexual relations – from both male and female points of view – in the present, but sometimes with a backdrop of several decades. Stories of desire and confusion – other men and other women – sit alongside stories of art – galleries, studios, allusions to painters – which gets in the way as least as often as it illuminates. Choices are made, in the knowledge that distractions may be the most important things of all.
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Budapest
The Manet Girl
Distraction
A Thursday
Back row, fourth from the left
Lives of the Artists
Flippertigibbet
White Dogs
The Rainy Season
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Charles Boyle has published a number of poetry collections (for which he was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Prizes), a short novel (winner of the 2008 Mc Kitterick Prize) and two books combining text and photography. He runs the small press CB editions. This is his first book of stories.