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How Much the Heart Can Hold: Seven Stories on Love (Paperback)
Carys Bray (author), Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (author), Bernardine Evaristo (author), Grace McCleen (author), Donal Ryan (author), Nikesh Shukla (author), D.W. Wilson (author)Published: 10/08/2017
'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.
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9781473649453
Number of pages: 176
Weight: 132 g
Dimensions: 197 x 136 x 13 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
With prose that is occasionally astonishing, these stories muddy the waters of the literature on love in the best possible way. - Financial Times
Startlingly original stories - Sunday Express S Magazine
All seven [stories] score an outright win in the battle to make the ethereal real. - Country Life
Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming than the word necessarily conveys. - Observer
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