Fools for Love by Helen Schulman
A virtuosic, laugh-out-loud collection of stories that explore the fraught and fantastic nature of human connection--featuring women, men, various couples, and one terribly precocious baby>enmeshed in tangled romances of all shapes and sizes The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up Helen Schulman's>Fools for Love are funny, sexy, sometimes sad, and always surprising. A single American mother and a French Orthodox rabbi fall in love over poetry, as she helps to dismantle a shuttered bookstore in Paris. A rebellious young woman marries a series of men who are all wrong for her and proceeds to cheat on each of them; her widowed mother finds>her>deceased husband's sex diaries and decides she needs to make up for lost time. And in the title story, a blossoming East Village playwright realizes that her marriage to a brilliant actor is doomed, after watching his performance in an alternative production of Sam Shepard's iconic play. Characters wander in and out of one another's stories--and beds--in these tales of lust and attachment, a rollicking feast of love and loss that is not unlike the experience of life itself. Fools for Love is a vital addition to Schulman's acclaimed body of work--a collection that showcases at every turn what Katie Kitamura has referred to as her sharp observation, buoyant wit, and unfailing empathy.
Schulman, Helen: -
Helen Schulman writes fiction, nonfiction, and screenplays. Her last novel, This Beautiful Life, was a New York Times bestseller. She is a Professor of Writing and Fiction Chair at the MFA program at The New School. She lives in New York City with her family.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780593536254 |
| Title | Fools for Love |
| Author | Helen Schulman |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
| Year published | 2025-07-08 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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