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Paris and Other Love Stories
These are not conventional love stories. A middle-aged man goes alone to Paris for a piano recital…another visits his dying mistress in hospital. A woman in a tea-room begins a letter of complaint to a dating agency while another dreads the seventieth birthday party of her uncle, the black sheep of the family. These are stories about loneliness and loss, about disappointed hopes and hopeless dreams, about resentment and regret, about endings and in-betweens rather than beginnings. So they are not conventional love stories – but they are, in some way, stories about love.
118 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 24, 2014
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May 16, 2020
I have read this collection before, but for some reason did not mark it as read leading me to read it again. Short stories are pleasing to read between errands.
I liked all 12 stories better, I think, than my first reading. I probably did not mark the book because I did not want to say anything negative about this author after reading and liking his work under the name Peter Grainger. I was only reminded of this one when someone liked a review I had written some time ago. Lucky chance to prompt me to read again as these are thoughtful, relatable and dignified stories.
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I liked all 12 stories better, I think, than my first reading. I probably did not mark the book because I did not want to say anything negative about this author after reading and liking his work under the name Peter Grainger. I was only reminded of this one when someone liked a review I had written some time ago. Lucky chance to prompt me to read again as these are thoughtful, relatable and dignified stories.
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