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

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer's New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales.

By 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 in all stages of life: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness.

A murky fate --
The fall --
The goddess parka --
Like Penelope --
Ali-baba --
Two deities --
Father and mother --
The impulse --
Hallelujah, family! --
Give her to me --
Milgrom --
Clarissa's story --
Tamara's baby --
Young berries --
The adventures of Vera --
Eros's way --
A happy ending

Language: English

Pages: 171

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: January 29, 2013

ISBN: 0143121529

ISBN 13: 9780143121527

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

Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Love stories, with a twist: the eagerly awaited follow-up to the great Russian writer's New York Times bestselling scary fairy tales.

By 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 in all stages of life: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness.

A murky fate --
The fall --
The goddess parka --
Like Penelope --
Ali-baba --
Two deities --
Father and mother --
The impulse --
Hallelujah, family! --
Give her to me --
Milgrom --
Clarissa's story --
Tamara's baby --
Young berries --
The adventures of Vera --
Eros's way --
A happy ending

Language: English

Pages: 171

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Penguin Books

Release: January 29, 2013

ISBN: 0143121529

ISBN 13: 9780143121527

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