false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg 326383 1 As a girl in 1920s Prague, Edith Templeton caused a scandal by writing a school essay about how well-heated her private academy was--during a coal strike. This turned out to be a predictive event: Templeton's fiction illuminates the political by way of the intensely personal. In the title story of the exquisite collection <I>The Darts of Cupid</I>, a young woman's love affair is shaped by the tragedies of World War II. (This particular piece is so personal that upon its 1968 publication in <I>The New Yorker</I>, it made history as the most explicit story ever published by that magazine.) Templeton's stories are filled with acid-tongued girls, cynical older men, and frighteningly acute observations, such as "malice is the luxury of underlings." Bitterly funny and steeped in modern history, <I>The Darts of Cupid</I> places Templeton squarely in the company of Maeve Brennan and Sybille Bedford. These recently rediscovered midcentury women writers made unflinching fiction. <I>--Claire Dederer</I> 317025 2005 The Darts of Cupid total:7|5:1|3:3|2:3| 7 20 10 0 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 0 0 false Tue Oct 20 15:33:23 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 15:33:23 -0700 2009 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 2 0 false Thu Sep 24 19:33:34 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 06:05:45 -0700 2009 Thu Sep 24 19:33:34 -0700 2009 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 3 0 false Wed Jun 10 15:07:03 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 15:07:07 -0700 2009 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 2 0 false Wed Dec 03 14:18:32 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 03 14:18:32 -0800 2008 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 0 0 false Sat Jun 28 21:45:32 -0700 2008 Sat Jun 28 21:45:32 -0700 2008 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 3 0 false Wed Dec 10 11:29:37 -0800 2008 Wed Mar 19 12:02:52 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 10 11:29:37 -0800 2008 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 0 0 false Sun Feb 24 11:27:57 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 24 11:27:57 -0800 2008 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 2 0 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Nov 26 17:13:48 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 26 17:23:44 -0800 2007 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 5 0 false Tue Jun 19 08:39:32 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 08:39:32 -0700 2007 326383 0141011882 9780141011882 7 0 2.86 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173769784m/326383.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326383.The_Darts_of_Cupid 3 0 false Mon Mar 19 19:39:50 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 19 19:39:50 -0700 2007 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=326383