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Twenty contemporary wordsmiths--including Charles Bukowski, Alice Walker, Harold Brodkey, and others--pay tribute to Valentine's Day with stories of that examine love from every possible point of view. 20,000 first printing. $17,500 ad/promo.
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This fine collection brings together a diverse array of 20 contemporary stories about love and lust. Arranged in a chronology of sorts, these tales trace affairs of the heart from adolescent puppy love (Steven Millhauser's "The Sledding Party") to the worn and weathered ties of a begrudging elderly couple ("Letter to the Lady of the House" by Richard Bausch) and touch on many permutations in between. In David Leavitt's wrenching "Houses," a real estate broker is torn between his comfortably familiar wife and his searing passion for a male dog groomer. Joyce Carol Oates's unsettling "Morning" features a graduate student who embarks on an adulterous affair with one of her professors. Some of these stories render sexual encounters in graphic terms, particularly Harold Brodkey's "Innocence," which centers on a young man's determined effort to bring his lover to climax. Presumably set in India, William Kotzwinkle's erotic "Jewel of the Moon" evokes the Kama Sutra. Dark (also the editor of The Literary Ghost ) takes pains to justify his choices, emphasizing in his introduction the difference between literature and pornography and noting that stories about adulterous affairs do not mean that "the writers are advocating promiscuity"--but these splendid stories need no apologies.
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- PublisherViking Adult
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0670845809
- ISBN 13 9780670845804
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages368
- EditorDark Larry
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