My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead by Jeffrey Eugenides

'A perfect Valentine’s Day gift for lovers of literary fiction. “Eugenides has made wonderful choices from writers both classic and contemporary.” - New Orleans Times-Picayune “I can…recommend one very good gift for this Valentine’s Day: My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead” - Kansas City Star “Cupid is rarely kind in “Sparrow,” but his arrows are always razor-sharp.” - San Antonio Express-News “The wonder of ‘My Mistress’s Sparrow Is Dead’ is that it manages to capture a deep as well as broad range of this funny thing called love… By focusing on literary merit, Eugenides has produced a treasury worth holding dear.” - Christian Science Monitor “The 27 short stories in this collection provide healthy doses of longing and disappointment, but reading them is thoroughly enjoyable, like diving into a box of fine chocolates and savoring the bitter along with the sweet…the book makes a great Valentine’s Day gift for spouses, friends or lovers.” - Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers Eugenides has chosen splendid work.” - Washington Post Book World And it is a bigger thrill to realize that however painful the heartbreak, love offers real rewards-and these stories are among them.” - Los Angeles Times 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title.“The mix chosen by Eugenides is wonderful. 826 Chicago is part of the network of seven writing centers across the United States affiliated with 826 National, a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write. Let everybody else suffer.'-Jeffrey Eugenides, from the introduction to My Mistress's Sparrow Is DeadĪll proceeds from My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead will go directly to fund the free youth writing programs offered by 826 Chicago. Read these love stories in the safety of your single bed. I offer this book, then, as a cure for lovesickness and an antidote to adultery. It is perhaps only in reading a love story (or in writing one) that we can simultaneously partake of the ecstasy and agony of being in love without paying a crippling emotional price. 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. My Mistresss Sparrow Is Dead by Eugenides Jeffrey from. The proceeds of the collection go to the writing center 826 Chicago, established to encourage young peoples writing. A love story can never be about full possession. Eugenides is the editor of the collection of short stories titled My Mistresss Sparrow is Dead. But when it comes to love stories, things are simpler.

A love story can never be about full possession. When it comes to love,' writes Jeffrey Eugenides in this wonderful, if upsetting, collection of stories, 'there are a million theories to explain it. 'When it comes to love, there are a million theories to explain it. My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead (Eugenides) - Book Reviews.

My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead by Jeffrey Eugenides