Brief Encounters

Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Love affairs on the road, passionate holiday romances, erotic encounters, lovers who meet only to part'
A tourist in Peru falls for her handsome guide; backpackers check out who's on offer in the nightclubs of Prague; a couple trawl for adventure in a Mexican bathhouse; a beautiful Italian proposes marriage to the foreigner he's just met...

Twenty seductive stories - for everyone who has dreamt of escape with that perfect stranger.

Review:
definitive holiday reading' — Independent on Sunday
Synopsis:
This collection of stories from 22 authors from around the world concerns travel romances. A tourist in Peru falls for her handsome guide; a writer explores the ambiguities of his relationship with a Japanese woman; and a beautiful Italian on a train proposes marriage.
Synopsis:
A tourist in Paris falls for her handsome guide; a writer explores the ambiguities of his relationship with a Japanese woman; a lonely man readers graffiti for a sign that he is not the only gay in an Australian resort. Love affairs on the road, passionate holiday flings, disastrous pick-ups, erotic encounters--this collection of stories by Paul Theroux, Mona Simpson, Pico Iyer, and 19 others covers the gamut of the genre.
Synopsis:
Pico lyer, Mary Morris, Mona Simpson, Lisa St Aubin de Teran and Paul Theroux are among the contributors to this seductive collection of travel romances.
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Table of Contents
Prelude, from An Indian attachment /Sarah Lloyd
Hot tin roof, from Summers with Juliet /Bill Roorbach
New Cythera again /Christina Thompson
In the restrooms of Europe /Tom Whalen
Marriage proposal of an angel, from Off the rails /Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
Lady and the Monk /Pico Iyer
Piranha /Maureen Stanton
One room in a castle /Karen Connelly
Sweating profusely in Merida /Carol Queen
Falling for Holden /Sean Condon
Ramadan /Mona Simpson
American woman in the Chinese hat /Carole Maso
Frontiers of Heaven /Stanley Stewart
Let's go /Emily Perkins
Scenes from a long distance relationship /Peter Ho Davies
Weather prophet /Lucretia Stewart
Andre, from French lessons /Alice Kaplan
End of the Bolster/Sara Wheeler
from Nothing to declare /Mary Morris
Words are deeds /Paul Theroux.