{"product_id":"fools-for-love-stories-9780593536254","title":"Fools for Love: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up Helen Schulman's \u003ci\u003eFools for Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eher \u003c\/i\u003edeceased 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCharacters wander in and out of one another's stories--and beds--in these hilarious tales of lust and attachment--a rollicking feast of love and loss that is not unlike the experience of life itself. \u003ci\u003eFools for Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHELEN SCHULMAN is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of seven novels, including \u003ci\u003eLucky Dogs, Come with Me, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThis Beautiful Life. \u003c\/i\u003eSchulman has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Sundance, Aspen Words, and Columbia University. She is a professor of writing and Fiction Chair at The New School and lives in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51424498385170,"sku":"9780593536254","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a50a3746-404d-4590-80ad-03328cdcaf4c.jpg?v=1751380868","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fools-for-love-stories-9780593536254","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}