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My mistress's sparrow is dead : great love stories from Chekhov to Munro

Summary: A collection of love story excerpts from classic literary works, culled by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Middlesex, includes selections by such writers as Alice Munro, William Faulkner, and Milan Kundera, in a volume published to benefit the McSweeney literacy project 826 Chicago.

Item details

ISBN: 9780061240379
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Physical Description: print
xviii, 587 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Harper, ©2008.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

First love and other sorrows / Harold Brodkey -- The lady with the little dog / Anton Chekhov -- Love / Grace Paley -- A rose for Emily / William Faulkner -- The dead / James Joyce -- Dirty wedding / Denis Johnson -- Natasha / David Bezmozgis -- Some other, better Otto / Deborah Eisenberg -- The hitchhiking game / Milan Kundera -- Lovers of their time / William Trevor -- Mouche / Guy de Maupassant -- The moon in its flight / Gilbert Sorrentino -- Spring in Fialta / Vladimir Nabokov -- How to be an other woman / Lorrie Moore -- Yours / Mary Robison -- The bad thing / David Gates -- First love / Isaac Babel -- Tonka / Robert Musil -- Jon / George Saunders -- Red rose, white rose / Eileen Chang -- Fireworks / Richard Ford -- We didn't / Stuart Dybek -- Something that needs nothing / Miranda July -- The magic barrel / Bernard Malamud -- What we talk about when we talk about love / Raymond Carver -- Innocence / Harold Brodkey -- The bear came over the mountain / Alice Munro.