Hail, Hail, Rock'n'roll

Weighing up true love against the cold truth of mortality – the amorous and the anatomical – is a surprisingly effective wooing techniqueA friend of mine recently lent me a copy of some collected short stories written by the American writer Lorrie Moore. Among them is a story named Debarking, an account of a vague romance between two divorcees, Ira and Zora. At one point they go on a date to a restaurant, and Ira, our ­narrator, observes the trompe l'oeil on the restaurant wal...

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