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How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine´s gift: Seven Stories on Love
Carys Bray
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Description for How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine´s gift: Seven Stories on Love
Paperback. A brilliant collection of seven original stories by award-winning authors, inspired by different concepts of love. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda FitzgeraldLove is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.
'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda FitzgeraldLove is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.
Product Details
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781473649453
SKU
V9781473649453
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-50
About Carys Bray
Bernardine Evaristo is the award-winning author of seven books, including her most recent novel, Mr Loverman (Hamish Hamilton/Penguin-Random House, 2013). Carys Bray is the author of a collection of short stories, Sweet Home, and two novels, A Song for Issy Bradley, which was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, and The Museum of You. ... Read more
Reviews for How Much the Heart Can Hold: the perfect alternative Valentine´s gift: Seven Stories on Love
Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming than the word necessarily conveys.
Observer
All seven [stories] score an outright win in the battle to make the ethereal real.
Country Life
Startlingly original stories
Sunday Express S Magazine
With prose that is occasionally astonishing, these stories muddy the waters of the literature ... Read more
Observer
All seven [stories] score an outright win in the battle to make the ethereal real.
Country Life
Startlingly original stories
Sunday Express S Magazine
With prose that is occasionally astonishing, these stories muddy the waters of the literature ... Read more