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There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister's Husband And He Hanged Himself (2013)

by Ludmilla Petrushevskaya(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Penguin

review 1: I think the length of these stories worked against them. it all seemed to very much be Russian love stories (dense, depressing, more sorrow than love), but everything ended so quickly. the nature in which the author ended these tales just didn't do for me what I imagine she meant it to do. some of this may have been lost in the translation to English, but I can't say for sure. also everyone had the same names in unconnected stories and that shit threw me off. there was some pretty great dry humor here and there, but it was overall just kind of a swing and a miss for me.
review 2: i loved the bitter truths behind this book of short stories. and the foreword, especially about byt, is not to be missed. it really sets up the reader for the rest of the book. i wi... moresh there were more stories within this book. i felt like, upon completion, i could have added some of my own love stories to the cycle. i highly recommend this book to anyone who has come to the understanding that happy endings are a fallacy, you work with the hand you're dealt in life, and that pessimism and realism are two completely different different things, though blind optimists consider them one and the same. less

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