You Are Not the One: Stories (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780786714339)

"If you're interested in the way we live now, read these funny, destabilizing, and superbly crafted stories."--Edmund White

In this debut collection of eight compulsively readable stories, Vestal McIntyre combines honesty and compassion with hilarious dialogue. With "ONJ.com," a young woman in advertising decides she wants a gay man in her life, but the good-looking and fast-talking gay coworker she meets isn't as pleasant and "fun" as she had hoped. In "Dunford," a lonely, aging architect with a suppressed fascination for female escorts decides impulsively to take the opportunity of his wife's absence to set up a date. Sadly for Dunford, he realizes too late that his escort doesn't share his penchant for masturbation in car washes. And "Nightwalking" centers on a woman sleepwalker whose mother's death frames the occasion for a rocky family reunion. You Are Not the One marks the auspicious arrival of an exciting new talent.

Author: Vestal McIntyre
ISBN-10: 0786714336
ISBN-13: 9780786714339
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Language: English
Published: 12/21/2004
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.26h x 5.52w x 0.72d
Award: Lambda Literary Awards - Winner

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2004 pg. 1025
Publishers Weekly 11/29/2004 pg. 23
Ingram Advance 01/01/2005 pg. 73
Booklist 12/15/2004 pg. 708
Booksense '76 February 2005 02/01/2005 pg. 1
New York Times 02/20/2005 pg. 20