Love is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance
by Joel Rose (Editor), Catherine Texier (Editor)
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What is this thing called love? And where has it gone in contemporary fiction? Do "serious" young writers still attempt love stories? If they do, are the tales they tell drenched in cynicism or tenderness? Is modern love about intimacy, or desire, or obsession, or simple hard-edged attitude? Or all of the above? Love is Strange answers these questions by collecting work from sixteen writers who prowl the edges of human experience and literary form to evoke the landscape of American love from show more deepest downtown New York and decadent California to politically correct campuses and surreal suburbia. show lessTags
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I had this sat on my shelf so long before getting round to reading, and I think it came from a remainder bookshop back in the 90s. So I was a bit surprised to see some of the authors in it are actually much more well known now than they would have been back then - so you get David Foster Wallace with an author bio saying he's 'working on something long' (gotta be Infinite Jest right?), and A M Homes before she's published May We be Forgiven etc.
I really dislike the cover, and so was a bit sorry to see it was by Art Spiegelman.
Anyway its a collection of quirky and disturbing short stories, all vaguely about love, romance and sex. Some are better than others, and I'm finding it hard to remember them all in detail now, but I'm glad I show more finally got around to reading it. Its odd to read something that was probably edgy and modern at time of publishing but now seems a little dated. show less
I really dislike the cover, and so was a bit sorry to see it was by Art Spiegelman.
Anyway its a collection of quirky and disturbing short stories, all vaguely about love, romance and sex. Some are better than others, and I'm finding it hard to remember them all in detail now, but I'm glad I show more finally got around to reading it. Its odd to read something that was probably edgy and modern at time of publishing but now seems a little dated. show less
A great collection of some very quirky and sometimes disturbing short stories that illuminate the complexity of love and its delusions.
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- Dedication
- To the memory of David Wojnarowicz
- First words
- What is this thing called love?
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- Fiction and Literature, Romance
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- 813.08508 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English By type Genre fiction Romance fiction Collections
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- PS648 .L6 .L67 — Language and Literature American literature American literature Collections of American literature Prose (General)
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