A new anthology of literary love stories—the third collection in the appealing Pocket Classics format—perfect for Valentine’s Day...
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Jun 19, 2009
Doug
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Aug 05, 2011
I was intrigued by this book, since it has one of my all time favorite short stories, Lorrie Moore's "Terrific Mother." and a great selection of authors. I really enjoyed many of them (T. Coraghessan Boyle's "Swept Away," F. Scott Fitzgerald's "Winter Dreams," and Jhumpa Lahiri's "A Temporary Matter," for example.) Others, such as Elizabeth Bowen's "Dead Mabelle," hardly struck me as classics. But all in all, it's a worthwhile collection of st
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Jan 09, 2009
Pamela
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I picked up this collection to read over the holidays, thinking it would be the perfect warm, snuggly companion. But it's not. This collection is BRUTAL. And this isn't a criticism—the collection is fantastically curated, with straight-forward stories about true love, ineffable stories about what it means to love, and brutal stories of deception. Particularly moving were the contributions from Italo Calvino and Margaret Atwood; I can't get them out of my mind. I heartily recommend...althoug
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Feb 10, 2009
Cheryl
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Way too depressing...I don't mind depressing if it leads to redemption, and this collection was numbing.
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