Torn fresh from the intimate diaries of life- eight brilliant small novels fashioned in the white heat of passion and poetic vision from the naked truth of experience. Here are the poets and the punks, the shop girls, wantons and ladies, cabbies and gentlemen, the common and the great -each stripped to his or her bare and quivering heart in moments of flashing, terrible truth... all together a succession of thrilling insights into modern love.