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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 ...
"Forgiveness in Families" in "Vancouver Short Stories", edited by Carole Gerson, Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 1986, 94-103. "Meneseteung" in The Best American Short Stories of the Eighties, edited by Shannon Ravenel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990
Nine Stories is a collection of short stories by American fiction writer J. D. Salinger published in April 1953. It includes two of his most famous short stories, " A Perfect Day for Bananafish " and " For Esmé – with Love and Squalor ".
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The collection features eight intricate stories exploring themes of love, marriage, aging, and human relationships, including the titular story about an unlikely romance sparked by a teenage prank, and "The Bear Came Over the Mountain," a poignant examination of love and memory in the face of illness.
Upon release, Mothers and Sons was generally well-received. On Bookmarks March/April 2007 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (3.5 out of 5) based on critic reviews with the critical summary saying, "In his first short-fiction collection, Colm Tóibín takes a compelling look at the ties that bind".
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.
In the short stories comprising Licks of Love, Updike is preoccupied with "themes of loss", based on reminiscences from his youth and middle-age—often recounting "blue-remembered infidelities." [5] [6] Film and cultural critic A. O. Scott, writing in The New York Times, comments on the key thematic element that characterizes this short fiction: