There Once Lived a Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband, and He Hanged Himself

by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya

Book Overview

Love stories, with a twist, by Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer--the author of the prizewinning memoir about growing up in Stalinist Russia, The Girl from the Metropol Hotel By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla Petrushevskaya--who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy, Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King--is best known for in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0143121529
• ISBN13: 9780143121527
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.0" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher