Love Stories for the Rest of Us

by Chipps, Genie D.; Henderson, Bill

• ISBN13: 9780916366933
• ISBN10: 0916366936
• Edition: 00
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1995-02-17
• Publisher: Pushcart Press

Summary

This paperback edition of the best love stories of our time as selected from the past decade's Pushcart Prize collections is "a best of the best." The editors suggest that we are a culture bombarded with love ditties and TV romances, but this has little to do with romantic love as most of us experience it. The authors in this anthology#xE2;#x80;#x94;all devoted to truth, not commerce#xE2;#x80;#x94;see love with a different perspective, be it wonderful, sad, tragic, ridiculous, or hilarious. These writers break free from stereotypes. Like Pushcart's previous love story collection#xE2;#x80;#x94;the popular Love Stories for the Time Being#xE2;#x80;#x94;this anthology selects stories by the known and the new: Mona Simpson, Joyce Carol Oates, Becky Birtha, Clarence Major, Elizabeth Spencer, and Andre Dubus, plus twenty others.

Table of Contents

Island	p. 1
The Hair	p. 31
My Mother and Mitch	p. 46
Nosotros	p. 57
Same Old Big Magic	p. 78
An Embarrassment of Ordinary Riches	p. 82
Crazy Life	p. 100
The Columbus School for Girls	p. 113
Other Lives	p. 127
Housework	p. 141
Tell Me Everything	p. 153
Yukon	p. 177
The Middle of Nowhere	p. 185
Waiting for Mr. Kim	p. 203
Jack of Diamonds	p. 217
Hush Hush	p. 248
"By Love Possessed"	p. 264
Astronauts	p. 270
Green Grow the Grasses O	p. 289
War	p. 314
Acts of Kindness	p. 324
Rose	p. 334
Lyrics for Puerto Rican Salsa and Three Soneos by Request	p. 368
Johnnieruth	p. 374
Lawns	p. 380
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