Anhedonia by Ted McLoof

$20.99

 

“A poignant book about what it is to love in the 21st Century from a fantastically gifted and perceptive writer.”
–Johanna Lane, author of Black Lake

 

“By expertly balancing what is revealed and what is withheld across the tightly-connected stories of this engrossing book, Ted McLoof assembles an honest, amusing, and moving puzzle of desperate lovers and the lives that lie just outside their grasp. Each story feels delivered right into your ear at a dark, windowless bar, by a long-lost friend, who jokes about the wreckage of his life, chokes back a sob, and then orders another round. Like all well-told tales, you never want them to end. An addictive and deceptively powerful book. ”
–Mike Harvkey, author of In the Course of Human Events

 

“Wry and deft, at times melancholy and self-deprecating, these stories slip neatly into the fine line between romance and comedy. Ted McLoof writes with enviable awareness about the insecurities and uncertainties of relationships, and even more so about how we come to terms with our lonely self-delusions. ”
–Manuel Munoz, author of What You See in the Dark

 

 

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Anhedonia

by Ted McLoof

$20.99, Full-length, short fiction, paper

978-1-64662-981-7

2022

ANHEDONIA is an extended meditation on the malleability of love, the elusive nature of memory, the process of growing older, and contemplating mortality. Its stories follow young couples through their romantic, chaotic, drunken misadventures as they struggle with some hard truths and do what they can to come out the other side intact. Whether debating the relative merits of Disneyland, getting in barfights in a Chili’s on a weekday, or nursing a hangover during an STD check at the student health center, ANHEDONIA’s lost souls always find themselves at the bottom of a glass. As they drink their problems away, cigarette by cigarette, lover by lover, steeping themselves in pop culture as a life raft, they battle their biggest vice of all: themselves.

Ted McLoof teaches fiction at the University of Arizona. He writes about characters suffering from arrested development, usually while they watch Arrested Development and listen to Arrested Development. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Minnesota Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Monkeybicycle, Hobart, DIAGRAM, Kenyon Review, The Rumpus, Louisville Review, Ninth Letter, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. He’s been nominated for a Best of the Net Award. ANHEDONIA is his first collection.

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