{"product_id":"fools-for-love-stories-helen-schulman-hardcover","title":"Fools for Love: Stories -- Helen Schulman, Hardcover","description":"\u003cstrong\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\/strong\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.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Helen Schulman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 7\/8\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/strong\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 8.3\" H x 5.7\" L x 0.9\" W\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780593536254\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Flowerburst","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50561833500976,"sku":"9780593536254","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2712\/8368\/files\/9780593536254.jpg?v=1775119727","url":"https:\/\/flowerburst.co\/products\/fools-for-love-stories-helen-schulman-hardcover","provider":"Flowerburst","version":"1.0","type":"link"}