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

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


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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

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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 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, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer.

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Additional Contributors: Summers, Anna
Imprint: New York : - Penguin Books
Pages: 171
ISBN: 9780143121527, 0143121529
Language: English
Notes: Murky fate -- Fall -- Goddess parka -- Like Penelope -- Alibaba -- Two deities -- Father and mother -- Impulse -- Hallelujah, family! -- Give her to me -- Milgrom -- Clarissa's story -- Tamara's baby -- Young berries -- Adventures of Vera -- Eros's way -- Happy ending.
Statement of responsibility: Ludmilla Petrushevskaya ; selected and translated with an introduction by Anna Summers
Characteristics: xvii, 171 p. ;,20 cm
Content type: text
Media type: unmediated
Carrier type: volume
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