The American No 'Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller' Hadley Freeman, Sunday Times

<p><b>'Full of kindness, even tenderness... He is a brilliant writer: opulently gossipy as few are these days, but also truthful, witty, wise and stoical' Rachel Cooke, <i>Observer</i></b><br><b><br>'Everett is a brilliant writer - funny, waspish, warm and seductive' Camilla Long,<i> The Times</i></b><br><br> <b>'[An] eccentric and exquisite new collection of stories' Tatler</b><br><br><b>Richly imagined and extraordinarily affecting... Everett is a terrific storyteller</b>' <b>Hadley Freeman, <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><br><b>Eight stories of love and loss, drama and glamour, hope and rejection, from a writer at the height of his powers.</b> <br><br>In Rupert Everett's first, glorious collection of stories, he takes us on an exhilarating journey with a cast of extraordinary characters. A blackly humorous story of a chaotic and emotional funeral in Paris. Oscar Wilde's last night in Paris, vividly evocative, unflinching and elegiac. A middle-aged American-Russian countess who confronts sex and age in a Wiltshire teashop. The ferociously unforgiving life of an L.A. talent agency and the unexpected twist that launches a completely different kind of career. The deathbed confession of a woman who left home for 1850s India, never to return. A story of emigration, love and grief. And a beautifully evocative, touching and witty portrayal of Proust's creative life and his childhood.<br><br> A brilliantly witty, funny and tender collection of stories that draws on the wealth of film and TV ideas Rupert Everett has created over the course of his career, <i>The American No </i>will delight and surprise his many fans.</p>