A lads’ weekend in Eastern Europe spirals out of control. A bleeding tourist is rescued by a stranger in downtown Toronto. A middle-aged woman holidaying in Tunisia considers the local options for love. An unemployed man shares his fantasies of a sex tour of Arizona with his long-suffering girlfriend. A woman is drawn into an impromptu but life-changing football game in the heart of the Amazon.
LoveSexTravelMusik is a themed, contemporary story collection like no other. With wit, wisdom, insight and pathos, it examines men and women of all ages who, through the advent of discount air travel, play out their lives and loves across the globe, and captures the isolation, dislocation and occasional epiphanies of those who find themselves a thousand miles from home, and those who long to be.
Long-listed for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award
“The narratives that make up this collection of Stories for the EasyJet Generation are as fleeting as the jobs, relationships and occasional epiphanies they describe. Their characters are longing for change or having change thrust upon them. Lost in their own lives, they exude a kind of contemporary ennui – all of which makes this collection ideal holiday-reading. But holiday-reading perhaps more suited to the 3am fluorescence of a departure lounge than the roaring noon of a sun-soaked poolside“
– The Guardian
“Rodge Glass’ eagerly awaited new book LoveSexTravelMusik is potentially one of the most perceptive pieces of modern writing to date.”
– The List
“Brilliant, razor sharp and thoroughly modern in its prose. I love this collection of stories.”
– Helen Walsh
“In this download-era of frequent budget travel and budget reading, of fast-grab experience, Glass seems in synch with the restless zeitgeist.”
– The Scotsman
“Never before has the impact of low cost international travel on modern lives been so thoughtfully considered and brilliantly captured – beautiful, profound, sometimes heartbreaking, this literary triumph shows the levelling impact of low cost air travel … Laugh, be moved and consider the question: are you part of the EasyJet generation?”
– Traveller Magazine
– EasyJet Magazine
 | Rodge GlassRODGE GLASS’s debut novel No Fireworks (Faber, 2005) was nominated for four major worldwide prizes. This was followed by another novel, Hope for Newborns (Faber, 2008), and soon after by Alasdair Gray: A Secretary’s Biography (Bloomsbury, 2008), which received a Somerset Maugham Award in 2009. Next, he was co-author of the graphic novel Dougie’s War: A Soldier’s Story along with Dave Turbitt, also nominated for several awards. His last novel, Bring Me the Head of Ryan Giggs, was published in 2012 by Serpent’s Tail and was published in Italian as Voglio la Testa di Ryan Giggs (66thand2nd, 2014). Meanwhile the collection LoveSexTravelMusik: Stories for the Easyjet Generation was published in April 2013, and published as Price za Izidzet Generaciju in Serbian in 2016. His short fiction has also been published in Danish, Hebrew, Spanish and Slovenian. Rodge is a Reader in Literary Fiction at Edge Hill University, also Co-Director of Edge Hill University Press, and Fiction Editor at Freight Books in Glasgow. |