Love Stories

LYNN CURTIS, ROSAMUNDE PILCHER, COLETTE, CATHERINE COOKSON

ISBN 10: 0312957564 / ISBN 13: 9780312957568

Published by St. Martin's Paperbacks February 1996, 1996

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Love Stories
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks February 1996
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312957564
• ISBN 13: 9780312957568
• Binding: Paper Back
• Condition: Good
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Synopsis

The world has as many love stories as it has beating hearts.

Now you can experience the power of ageless love in this engaging collection of beautifully crafted and atmospheric stories...

A lazy summer on the Cornish coast changeds Rosamunde Philcher's "Lalla" from girl to woman.

Catherine Cookson's "Miss Geraldine Parkington" bids a bold farewell to a long life of loneliess and lovelessness.

John Updike's "A Constellation of Events" watches the first glimmer of adultry become a never-to-be-forgotten starburst.

A runaway rabbit plays Cupid for a leggy redheaded secretary in Jully Cooper's delightfully quirky "The Square Peg."

"Kiss Me Again, Strager," says Daphne du Maurier's sleepy-eyed sired when a young man follows her home on a dark London evening.

For romantics everywhere, a bouquet of fiery passions and lingering sweetness.

From Publishers Weekly

Previously published in Great Britain in 1990, this collection of 18 stories about love and its many guises represents an uneven gathering of authors, from Stella Whitelaw to Ivan Turgenev, Jilly Cooper to John Updike. But whether written by a literary heavyweight or a popular romance writer, the stories share a simplicity of narrative and rather dramatic tone. Typical of the more romantic tales are Catherine Cookson's "Miss Geraldine Parkington," about a spinster from a well-to-do English family who proposes marriage to her longtime gardener, and Pilcher's "Lalla," in which a plain girl relates how her beautiful older sister gave up a dashing fiance and modeling career to return to her childhood sweetheart. Updike's "A Constellation of Events," a housewife's account of the beginning of an affair, stands out for its author's familiar ability to shade and alter narrative with a telling glance, or through tone of voice. Unfortunately, despite the presence of other major writers (Daphne du Maurier, Guy de Maupassant, H.E. Bates, Colette), such subtlety and craftsmanship are rare in this volume, which proves satisfying without being challenging, interesting without being memorable.
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