Description: This tour de four of realistic love stories operates operatically, like a piece of music in four movements, sometimes zany and tragic, at times surreal and sublime.
Review Quotes:
"Matthew James Babcock is charming with a poetic bent.... Throughout all the stories there is a push and pull for what love really means. For all those beach readers or book clubs looking for their next read -- this is it."
⎯J Bowen West, The Times News
"With sentences like, 'His sick heart swings like a clapperless bell, ' Matthew James Babcock's Four Tales of Troubled Love is a banquet of rich, abundant and wildly inventive language. In these novellas, only oddly matched lovers survive, and the fantastic and hilarious are indistinguishable from the painful and dismal. A unique and exceptional book."
⎯John Vernon, Author of Lucky Billy