We So Seldom Look on Love: Stories
by:
Barbara Gowdy (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780060170318 (006017031X)
Publish date: August 1st 1993
Publisher: HarperCollins
Pages no: 209
Edition language: English
Category:
Humor,
Academic,
School,
Literature,
Cultural,
Romance,
Literary Fiction,
Contemporary,
Short Stories,
Canada,
Canadian Literature
A mixed bag- some stories glitter (e.g. the title story and "Ninety-Three Million Miles"), while others fade.
Excelente!!! Hace tiempo que no leía unas historias cortas tan originales , profundas y precisas ."FLesh of my Flesh" me tuvo leyendo entre lágrimas . Tanta ternura ! (Entre tanta perturbación de la mayoría de los demás cuentos)
I thoroughly enjoyed this one.Gowdy has a beautiful writing style. Not all these stories are about love but they all display unusual human relationships with some "unusual" people. There's a story about a woman learning that her husband was actually born a woman, a story about a man with two heads w...
Went around the house collecting brief and odd or somewhat strange stories to review and shelve here and was pleased to rediscover this forgotten gem. As noted: "The characters in these eight masterfully crafted stories are from life's extremes -- a female necrophile, a lonely exhibitionist, a two-h...
Went around the house collecting brief and odd or somewhat strange stories to review and shelve here and was pleased to rediscover this forgotten gem. As noted: "The characters in these eight masterfully crafted stories are from life's extremes -- a female necrophile, a lonely exhibitionist, a two-h...