cover image Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing: Four Stories

Love, Pain, and the Whole Damn Thing: Four Stories

Doris Dorrie. Vintage Books USA, $9 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-679-72992-1

Among these four mordant feminist comedies are ``Men,'' in which an ad exec whose wife is having an affair with a hippie disguises himself and moves in with his rival, and ``Paradise,'' a menage a trois tale of a husband obsessed with his wife's girlfriend. ``Dazzling . . . . Dorrie's casual, deadpan style belies the tight compression of these acid meditations,'' said PW. (May)