Paper Lantern: Love Stories

A new collection of short stories by a master of the form with a common focus on the turmoils of romantic love. Ready!So begins “Tosca,” the first in this vivid collection of Stuart Dybek’s love stories. Operatically dramatic and intimately lyrical, grittily urban and impressionistically natural, the varied fictions in Paper Lantern all focus on the turmoil of love as only Dybek can portray it. An execution triggers the recollection of a theatrical romance; then a social worker falls for his own client; and lovers part as giddily, perhaps as hopelessly, as a kid trying to hang on to a boisterous kite. A flaming laboratory evokes a steamy midnight drive across terrain both familiar and strange, and an eerily ringing phone becomes the telltale signature of a dark betrayal. Each story is marked with contagious desire, spontaneous revelation, and, ultimately, resigned courage. As one woman whispers when she sets a notebook filled with her sketches drifting out to sea, “Someone wi...

Author: Dybek Stuart

ISBN: 9780374710545

Year of publication: 2014

Genre: Modern prose

Number of pages: 212

Reading time: 3 h. 32 min.

Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF

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