Story: Love - Great Short Stories for Women By Women

'Love is, of course, a central preoccupation of literature...'
Victoria Hislop, bestselling author and champion of the short story, has chosen her favourite short stories by women writers. Here are prizewinners, famous wits, well-known feminists, national treasures and rising stars.
Love is represented in this volume in all its guises - romantic, maternal, happy and haunting.
CONTRIBUTORS: Katherine Mansfield, Dorothy Parker, Doris Lessing, Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, Ellen Gilchrist, Alice Walker, Mavis Gallant, Carol Shields, Anne Enright, Elspeth Davie, Alison Lurie, Jennifer Egan, Jeanette Winterson, Claire Boylan, Maggie Gee, Colette Paul, Rachel Seiffert, Yiyun Li, Nadine Gordimer, Miranda July, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Carys Davies, Alison MacLeod, Emma Donoghue, Roshi Fernando, M. J. Hyland and Avril Joy.

About the author

Victoria Hislop lebt mit ihrem Mann und ihren zwei Kindern in Kent und schreibt unter anderem Reiseberichte für verschiedene Zeitungen und Frauenzeitschriften. Überdies unterstützt sie die Hilfsorganisation LEPRA.

Summary

The LOVE collection from Victoria Hislop's THE STORY, 100 short stories written by women, selected and introduced by one of the nation's favourite novelists.

Additional text

'A rich feast.' Nigella Lawson.

Report

'[This] has given me more pleasure this year than almost all the rest of my reading put together.' Mariella Frostrup

Product details

• Authors: Victoria Hislop
• Assisted by: Victori Hislop (Editor), Victoria Hislop (Editor), Hislop Victoria (Editor)
• Publisher: Head of Zeus
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.06.2014
• EAN: 9781781856642
• ISBN: 978-1-78185-664-2
• No. of pages: 432
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Anthologies; FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary