Sneed has made a name for herself as an award-winning and frequently anthologized short story writer with her previous collection "Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry ," and she’s the author of critically well-received novels: "Paris, He Said" and "Little Known Facts." Like Candace Bushnell, Sneed is concerned with the complexities of adult relationships, although Sneed focuses less on the pursuit of sex and love than on the more complicated matter of love’s fallout. How well can we really know and understand other people, from the famous celebrities we wonder about when we flip through the pages of People magazine to the friends and lovers we think we know best? That’s the question at the heart of Christine Sneed’s smart and sexy new short story collection, "The Virginity of Famous Men." Each story swirls around jaded and jilted characters who struggle to figure out how other people operate, as if they could crack the code by asking (or ruminating over) the most personal of questions: “How’d you lose your virginity?”
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