Part of the collection's appeal is its range and depth: at 600 pages, it offers gems and new discoveries at every turn. Pulitzer Prize winner Eugenides ( Middlesex) has assembled something quite extraordinary here: a fascinating, consistently compelling, and superbly edited collection of short stories about romantic love. Though every reader will grouse about overlooked favorites.Eugenides has chosen splendid work. Love stories, nearly without exception, give love a bad name". Love stories depend on disappointment, on unequal births and feuding families, on matrimonial boredom and at least one cold heart. The happy marriage, the requited love, the desire that never dims-these are lucky eventualities but they aren't love stories. A love story can never be about full possession. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler. When it comes to love," writes Jeffrey Eugenides in this wonderful, if upsetting, collection of stories, "there are a million theories to explain it.
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