Fools for Love

Stories

De: Helen Schulman

Narrado por: Alex McKenna, Edoardo Ballerini, Helen Laser, Candace Fitzgerald, Jane Oppenheimer, Hillary Huber, David Warshofsky

A 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

The wide-ranging and inventive stories that make up Helen Schulman’s Fools for Love 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 her deceased 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.

Characters 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. Fools for Love 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.”

©2025 Helen Schulman (P)2025 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Without attempting to be a novel in stories, the collection is free to go off on wild tangents, such as a story narrated by an evil baby, Lucien H., and a tale of forbidden love with a married Orthodox rabbi in Paris. In multiple stories, people come back from the dead, and everywhere, there are sentences to make you laugh. . . . Never underestimate the power of a good short story to lift your spirits.”—Kirkus [starred review]

“Witty, polished, and deceptively casual. . . . Gives John Cheever a run for his money.”—Booklist

The stories are clever, but sadly very superficial

The stories touch all the trendy hotspots in our culture, but they leave you Unsatisfied because they are so superficial