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There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister s Husband, and He Hange - Love Stories

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Zusatztext 41015339 Informationen zum Autor Ludmilla Petrushevskaya was born in 1938 in Moscow, where she still lives. She is the author of more than fifteen volumes of prose, including the New York Times bestseller There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby: Scary Fairy Tales, which won a World Fantasy Award and was one of New York magazine’s Ten Best Books of the Year and one of NPR’s Five Best Works of Foreign Fiction; There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, and He Hanged Himself: Love Stories ; and a prizewinning memoir,  The Girl from the Metropol Hotel.  A singular force in modern Russian fiction, she is also a playwright whose work has been staged by leading theater companies all over the world. In 2002 she received Russia’s most prestigious prize, The Triumph, for lifetime achievement. Klappentext Love stories, with a twist, by Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer-the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya-who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King-is best known for in Russia. Here are attempts at human connection, both depraved and sublime, by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings, office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships, and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic illusion, and surprising tenderness. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer. Zusammenfassung Love stories! with a twist! by Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer—the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia!  The Girl from the Metropol Hotel   By turns sly and sweet! burlesque and heartbreaking! these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov! Tolstoy! Beckett! Poe! Angela Carter! and even Stephen King—is best known for in Russia.   Here are attempts at human connection! both depraved and sublime! by people across the life span: one-night stands in communal apartments! poignantly awkward couplings! office trysts! schoolgirl crushes! elopements! tentative courtships! and rampant infidelity! shot through with lurid violence! romantic illusion! and surprising tenderness. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman! Petrushevskaya blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia’s preeminent contemporary fiction writer. ...

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Authors Leiiudmila Petrushevskaeiia, Ludmila Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Ludmilla/ Summers Petrushevskaya, Anna Summers
Assisted by Anna Summers (Introduction), Anna Summers (Translation)
Publisher Penguin Books USA
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 29.01.2013
 
EAN 9780143121527
ISBN 978-0-14-312152-7
No. of pages 192
Dimensions 129 mm x 196 mm x 12 mm
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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