- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Classics (5 Feb 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0141190221
- ISBN-13: 978-0141190228
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
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If love is vexing, it is also sweet as the molasses kisses that a husband buys his cheating but forgiven wife in Zora Neale Hurston's magnetic tale, 'The Gilded Six-Bits'. . . I finished this anthology wanting to revisit Virginia Woolf and perhaps stack my bedside table solely with works by William Trevor . . . DH Lawrence is fiery, AM Homes compassionate. Alan Sillitoe knows regret and Colette when to call it a day. Brought together here, they resonate with compelling disputatiousness. --OBSERVER (Hephzibah Anderson)
Diverting and unusual. --SUNDAY HERALD (Alan Taylor)
Diverting and unusual. --SUNDAY HERALD (Alan Taylor)
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Jhumpa Lahiri, a writer wonderfully attentive to the texture and eccentricity of everyday life, describes the early days of an arranged marriage in 'This Blessed House'. It perfectly captures those early-relationship quarrels, half-serious, that a couple have . . . Katherine Mansfield's 'Mr and Mrs Dove' -- about a botched proposal of marriage -- was among my very favourite . . . It's not all men and women, though. In the odd case it's men and men -- Harld Brodkey describes the souring of a friendship between two teenage boys; Joyce Carol Oates a turning-point quarrel between lovers in late middle age . . . What our anthologists seem to have set out to do, and have accomplished, is to gather stories that evince a sympathetic or a wittily exact sense of the actual mechanics of quarrelling: where it sits in a relationship, how it gets there, what it means, how it can be overcome or accommodated. It's not always . . . the opposite of sex but its secret sharer.
Refreshingly different . . . With a superb author list including literary greats like Virginia Woolf, William Trevor, Katharine Mansfield, DH Lawrence and Dorothy Parker, this sensitive collection of short stories cuts to the core of the lovers' quarrels that both blight and cement relationships . . . This lovers' collection is not about romantic walks in the park, or candlelit dinners for two. It's about the grief of leaving, the pain of staying, words that are said and words that are never uttered till too late. But it's also about forgiveness, acceptance, and the enduring quality of human relationships.
Refreshingly different . . . With a superb author list including literary greats like Virginia Woolf, William Trevor, Katharine Mansfield, DH Lawrence and Dorothy Parker, this sensitive collection of short stories cuts to the core of the lovers' quarrels that both blight and cement relationships . . . This lovers' collection is not about romantic walks in the park, or candlelit dinners for two. It's about the grief of leaving, the pain of staying, words that are said and words that are never uttered till too late. But it's also about forgiveness, acceptance, and the enduring quality of human relationships.
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