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“Say Yes” is a short story written by Tobias Wolff in 1985. This story is about a husband and wife discussing the issues of interracial marriage.While she feels that race should not be a factor when marrying someone, he disagrees, saying, “how can you understand someone who comes from a completely different background?” [1] The couple's discussion confronts the theories on identity ...
The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998.. The eight stories of this collection (one of which was originally published in Saturday Night; five others were originally published in The New Yorker) deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love, betrayal, and the stuff of ordinary lives.
Free Love and Other Stories is a short story collection by Scottish Booker-shortlisted author Ali Smith, first published in 1995 by Virago Press. It was her first published book and won the Saltire First Book of the Year award. [1] and a Scottish Arts Council award [2] It contains twelve short stories. "A Sweetly memorable collection" - The ...
The World's Wife is Carol Ann Duffy's fifth collection of poetry. Her previous collection, Standing Female Nude, is tied to romantic and amorous themes, while her collection The Other Country takes a more indifferent approach to love; The World's Wife continues this progression in that it critiques male figures, masculinity, and heterosexual love to instead focus on forgotten or neglected ...
The story is unusual for its point-of-view: Of the many books and stories on werewolves, few are written from the perspective of wolves.Le Guin goes to great lengths to conceal the nature of the narrator, fully exploiting the reader's assumptions to purposefully heighten the plot twist at the story's denouement.
They must have been tempted to do so. My first wife, my second wife, my daughters (especially my oldest, who had to live through so much of this), my brothers, my colleagues at my university: They all continued to believe in me and support me. I was a petulant, deceitful, unreliable, manipulative, outrageously selfish and self-absorbed person.
The story, like Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), is written in the present tense, employing the second-person singular “you” when the protagonist addresses his wife. “Wife-Wooing” is part of the Maples family saga, first collected in Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories (1979) [4] No plot develops, and though unnamed, the married couple are Joan and Richard Maple.
I Think I Love My Wife is a 2007 American romantic comedy film starring Chris Rock, Kerry Washington and Gina Torres. Rock co-wrote the film with Louis C.K. and also directed and produced it. It is a remake of the 1972 French film Love in the Afternoon by Éric Rohmer . [ 3 ]