[lbo-talk] love stories???

[Mark Bennett]

Nabokov has many:  "Spring in Fialta," "That in Aleppo Once . . ., "
"The Assistant Producer," "Ultima Thule," "A Russian Beauty," "First
Love,"  "The Vane Sisters," "The Admiralty Spire," and so on.  His
collected stories can be purchased for about twelve bucks from Amazon.

Two great stories of thwarted love and desire can be found in Penguin's
Modern Irish Short Stories: "A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly" by
Benedict Kiely, and "All Sorts of Impossible Things," by John McGahern.

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[mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of joanna
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 9:37 AM
To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org; Liza Featherstone
Subject: [lbo-talk] love stories???

My twelve-year old daughter has fallen off her reading lately, but 
yesterday she expressed an interest in reading "love stories."

Nothing surprising there. It's hormone, boy-crazy time and anything that

will get her to read is fine by me.

She likes things like "Pride and Prejudice," which she has read, but she

only has time for shorter books because of 20 hrs of ballet/week and 
full time school.

A quick comb through my fictions collection unearthed Chekhov's "Lady 
and the Dog," The Great Gatsby, and Collette's "Cheri." Not exactly 
12-year old fare, but it was all handy. I also managed to retrieve 
O'Henry's "Gift of the Magi" off the net.

If any reader/lurker can recommend a good love story -- short story, 
novelette, or short novel, I'd appreciate it. I  can think of lots, but 
they're all 18th, 19th century longish things. My daughter is OK with 
sad endings and I'm OK if it has sex in it.

Thanks,

Joanna

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