Love Is Strange: Stories of Postmodern Romance

by Joel Rose and Catherine Texier

Book Overview

What is this thing called love? And where has it gone in contemporary fiction? Do "serious" young writers still attempt love stories? If they do, are the tales they tell drenched in cynicism or tenderness? Is modern love about intimacy, or desire, or obsession, or simple hard-edged attitude? Or all of the above? Love is Strange answers these questions by collecting work from sixteen writers who prowl the edges of human experience and literary form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393309657
• ISBN13: 9780393309652
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

HIllarious!

I bought this for a class, but all the stories in this are absoluately hillarious. Definitely a great read!