Potent as a dose of Viagra and hilarious as any modern woman's love life, In Search of an Impotent Man is a profoundly irreverent look at one irrepressible woman's search for Mr. Right.
 Carmen Legg is a thirty-something, flame-haired, BMW-driving temptress who has everything she could possibly want--except peace of mind. She can't sit through a business meeting without men ogling her legs; she can't come home after an eternal workday without fending off advances from her oversexed boyfriend. What she needs, Carmen decides, is a man with more meaningful things on his mind. So, like many contemporary single women, she hopes to find her Prince Charming by placing an ad in the personals, describing a wish distinctly her own: 
 Wanted: Clear-thinking male Attractive, successful 35-year-old woman seeks man for good times, days out, nights in, companionship. Must be intelligent and impotent. 
 In response to the ad, Carmen meets a colorful array of men, ranging from an outrageously wealthy baron to a motorcycle-riding James Dean look-alike to a divorced father who works with computers. Sharing every step of her adventures with her lively octogenarian neighbor, Elvira, her best friend Laura, a level-headed therapist named Isabella, and a good witch who specializes in cures for impotency, Carmen gradually begins to see that abstaining from sex isn't necessarily the clearest path to clear-thinking relationships. 
 Sassy and wholly entertaining, In Search of an Impotent Man is a story about a woman who is not afraid to take matters into her own hands and turn the assumptions about romantic love on their head.

In Search Of an Impotent Man: A Novel

Literature & Fiction

Whiteside, Shaun

HAUPTMANN, GABY.

Contemporary

Ecco

Essays discuss movies and movie directors, including Truffaut, Hitchcock, Ford, Lang, Altman, and Leone

Emotion Pictures: Reflections on the Cinema (Directors on Directors Series)

Humor & Entertainment

Hofmann, Michael

WENDERS, Wim

Movies

Faber&Faber

In the second half of the 20th century a large number of exceptional writers emerged from the small Austrian Republic. Yet the relationship of many of these writers with state and society has often been stormy as Austrian writers have felt themselves excluded from the mainstream. Beneath Black Stars provides a cross-section of the best writing from Austria from the 1960's to the present and provides an opportunity to sample a rich literature that remains central to European culture. In Europe, during this period, probably only Ireland can compare for the number of outstanding writers originating within such a small population. As a good anthology should, this has everything: sex and death, politics and history, mountains and lakes, country and city, laughter and tears (and more tears).

Beneath Black Stars

Hulse, Michael

Galbraith, Iain

Kinsky, Ester

Rook, Agnes

Short Stories & Anthologies

Serpent's Tail

This is the tragi-comic account of one man's life through the fate of his teeth; from the loss of his first milk tooth swallowed by his father in a prison camp, to the eventual fixture of a set of dentures. Devoting each chapter to a particular tooth, the unnamed narrator charts fifty years of East European history. Having worked in numerous guises and a miscellany of trades and professions which involve journeys across the globe, our hero struggles with the demands and transformations of his body and, more importantly, his teeth. In each city he visits he seeks out dentists from his homeland. Key moments of his life and indeed the last half-century have uncanny parallels with his dental state of health. Swept up in the agitated course of history he becomes involved in secret plots and covert missions, whilst on a personal level he engages in endless affairs and ceaseless reflection on the meaning of life. The reader may follow the story according to various different sequences.

Teeth and Spies

Pressburer, Giorgio

Granta Books

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