There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself Love Stories

Name: There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself Love Stories
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ISBN: 9780143121527

ISBN-10: 0143121529

ISBN-13: 9780143121527

Edition: 2013

Authors: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Anna Summers

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Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer’sNew York Timesbestselling scary fairy talesBy turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best known for in Russia.Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence,…

Book details

List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/29/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.10" wide x 7.70" long x 0.53" tall
Weight: 0.308
Language: English



Introduction


A Murky Fate


A Murky Fate


The Fall


The Goddess Parka


Like Penï¿½lope


Ali-Baba


Hallelujah, Family!


Two Deities


Father and Mother


The Impulse


Hallelujah, Family!


My Little One


Give Her to Me


Milgrom


The Story of Clarissa


Tamara's Baby


A Happy Ending


Young Berries


The Adventures of Vera


Eros's Way


A Happy Ending