Love stories for turbulent times
Subtitle: loving through the apocalypse
By: edited by Genie D. Chipps & Bill Henderson
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9781888889864
Subjects: Romance fiction
Other titles: Loving through the apocalypse
Description: "Selected from hundreds of Pushcart Prize winners, twenty-five brilliant writers -- including Charles Baxter, Karen Russell, Charles Johnson, and Donald Hall -- tell their contemporary love tales, both fiction and nonfiction, in often unsparing ways. In some there is a joyous celebration of love, in others the game is perplexing, but always fascinating"--Amazon.com.
Notes: "These tales are hilarious, tragic, joyous, ridiculous, and blissful"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The third thing  -- Donald Hall; title: Telref  -- Edward McPherson; title: Sabor A Mí  -- Alex Mindt; title: A local guide to dating in Slocomb County  -- Chris Drangle; title: Elder Jinks  -- Edith Pealman; title: Gina's death  -- Charles Baxter; title: What it is  -- Joan Connor; title: Touch  -- Steve Adams; title: The weave  -- Charles Johnson; title: The cavemen in the hedges  -- Stacey Richter; title: The high road  -- Joan Silber; title: Man and wife  -- Katie Chase; title: Death defiant bomba or What to wear when your boo gets cancer  -- Lilliam Rivers; title: Say  -- Joe Wilkins; title: The bad seed: a guide  -- Nicola Mason; title: Prowlers  -- Jack Driscoll; title: The widow joy  -- Rosellen Brown; title: The poison that purifies you  -- Elizabeth Kadetsky; title: Reading in his wake  -- Pamela Painter; title: Narrator  -- Elizabeth Painter; title: A single deliberate thing  -- Zebbie Watson; title: Madame Bovary's greyhound  -- Karen Russell; title: The epicurean  -- Louis B. Jones; title: Midterm  -- Leslie Johnson; title: The tower  -- Frederic Tuten; title: Counselor of my heart -- Lydia Conklin.