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- catalog abstract "Love and Loss brings together twenty-one bittersweet stories by some of the foremost women writers of this century exploring the loss of love. Elizabeth Bowen, Janette Turner Hospital, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf and twelve others confront the frailty of love and the desolation that can come with its loss, while discovering new sources of comfort and celebrating love that endures. A couple's. Marriage breaks down when a shared fantasy world dies; a mother obscures her loneliness with irascible complaints to her son; a young woman haunts her ex-lover's seedy neighbourhood; a woman whose husband has left her sails triumphantly into the distance during a flood. Whether poignant or playful, devastating or exuberant, these stories reach into the corners of the heart.".
- catalog alternative "Love and loss.".
- catalog contributor b4588623.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description "Love and Loss brings together twenty-one bittersweet stories by some of the foremost women writers of this century exploring the loss of love. Elizabeth Bowen, Janette Turner Hospital, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Doris Lessing, Alice Munro, Grace Paley, Dorothy Parker, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf and twelve others confront the frailty of love and the desolation that can come with its loss, while discovering new sources of comfort and celebrating love that endures. A couple's.".
- catalog description "Marriage breaks down when a shared fantasy world dies; a mother obscures her loneliness with irascible complaints to her son; a young woman haunts her ex-lover's seedy neighbourhood; a woman whose husband has left her sails triumphantly into the distance during a flood. Whether poignant or playful, devastating or exuberant, these stories reach into the corners of the heart.".
- catalog description "Miss Sahib / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Winter in the air / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Flight / Doris Lessing -- I live on your visits / Dorothy Parker -- The ambush / Elizabeth Taylor -- Black boy / Kay Boyle -- Lappin and Lapinova / Virginia Woolf -- After Holbein / Edith Warton -- Untouchable / Rahila Gupta -- Simon's luck / Alice Munro -- Sunday afternoon / Elizabeth Bowen -- Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield -- Tuxedo / Pauline Melville -- Samuel / Grace Paley -- Evening surgery / Shena Mackay -- Virgin soil / George Egerton -- Just like Robert de Niro / Ailsa Cox -- Spine / Charlotte Mew -- A summer evening / Anna Kavan -- The end-of-the-line end-of-the-world disco / Janette Turner Hospital.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 223 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0571129285 :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Boston : Faber and Faber,".
- catalog subject "823/.085089287 20".
- catalog subject "American fiction 20th century.".
- catalog subject "American fiction Women authors.".
- catalog subject "English fiction 20th century.".
- catalog subject "English fiction Women authors.".
- catalog subject "Love stories, American.".
- catalog subject "Love stories, English.".
- catalog subject "PR1309.L68 L68 1992".
- catalog tableOfContents "Miss Sahib / Ruth Prawer Jhabvala -- Winter in the air / Sylvia Townsend Warner -- Flight / Doris Lessing -- I live on your visits / Dorothy Parker -- The ambush / Elizabeth Taylor -- Black boy / Kay Boyle -- Lappin and Lapinova / Virginia Woolf -- After Holbein / Edith Warton -- Untouchable / Rahila Gupta -- Simon's luck / Alice Munro -- Sunday afternoon / Elizabeth Bowen -- Life of Ma Parker / Katherine Mansfield -- Tuxedo / Pauline Melville -- Samuel / Grace Paley -- Evening surgery / Shena Mackay -- Virgin soil / George Egerton -- Just like Robert de Niro / Ailsa Cox -- Spine / Charlotte Mew -- A summer evening / Anna Kavan -- The end-of-the-line end-of-the-world disco / Janette Turner Hospital.".
- catalog title "Love & loss : stories of the heart / edited by Georgina Hammick.".
- catalog title "Love and loss.".
- catalog type "Short stories.".
- catalog type "text".