GREAT AMERICAN ♥ LOVE STORIES - Hardback book with Dust Jacket selected by Lucy Rosenthal
- With an introduction by Lucy Rosenthal
- Over 667 pages
- First Galahad Books editions published in 1995
- Copyright © 1988 by Lucy Rosenthal
" From the early masters, Hawthorne and Melville, through Hemingway and Fitzgerald, to the postmodern minimalists of today, love stories have been an enduring part of the American literary tradition. Now Lucy Rosenthal has gathered the great American love stories in a wonderfully enjoyable collection. These stories reflect America's diversity - economic, regional, racial, ethnic - as well as the common themes that love inspires: the longing of first love; married love; clandestine love; breakups and partings. " " Passionate, romantic, wistful, often sad - and even funny - these are stories to read and reread in a volume to treasure. " Contents include: " Introduction by Lucy Rosenthal Rappaccini's Daughter by Nathaniel Hawthorne The Piazza by Herman Melville Daisy Miller by Henry James Souls Belated by Edith Wharton Coming, Aphrodite ! by Willa Carter Up in Michigan by Ernest Hemingway "The Sensible Thing" by F. Scott Fitzgerald A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker How Beautiful with Shoes by Wilbur Daniel Steele The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown by Damon Runyon Imagine Kissing Pete by John O'Hara If They Hang You (excerpt, from The Maltese Falcon ) by Dashiell Hammett Lila the Werewolf by Peter Beagle No Place for You, My Love by Eudora Welty The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud The Pot of Gold by John Cheever Here Come the Maples by John Updike The Spinoza of Market Street by Isaac Bashevis Singer The Ballad of the Sad Cafe by Carson McCullers Texasville (excerpt) by Larry McMurtry St. George by Gail Godwin Innocence by Harold Brodkey Lust by Susan Minot The Pacific by Mark Helprin Elena, Unfaithful by Gloria Kurian Broder The Consolation of Philosophy by Nicholas Delbanco Bluebeard's Second Wife by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Dating Your Mom by Ian Frazier Residents and Transients by Bobbie Ann Mason His Own Where by June Jordan An Interest in Life by Grace Paley About the Authors Acknowledgments " The book is in very nice condition with minor edgewear to the dust jacket. No torn or ripped pages. The side edges of the pages look slightly dirty with a few marks, mostly visible from the side view. No other markings or writing. |