On Being Told That Her Second Husband Has Taken His First Lover, and Other Stories

by Tess Slesinger

Book Overview

An intensely feminine book, in which bleakness, unemployment, heartache, and heartlessness are combined with an agreeable feeling of settling down for conversation with an intimate, disillusioned, gossipy, malicious, and often very witty friend. --New Statesman

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812962427
• ISBN13: 9780812962420
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Times Books(NY)
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of My All-Time Favorites

I happened upon this collection of short stories while wandering the stacks of my college library during my freshman year at UW Eau Claire. In an attempt to avoid studying for final exams, I began browsing its pages and quickly fell in love with Slesinger's writing style. The title story hit all the right notes as I was nursing a broken heart at the time and was quite certain no one else had ever felt the same (ah, the drama of youth!). I purchased it a few years ago and it's one of those books I read annually without fail.

Great book!!

I'm really glad that I found this book because I have been searching for it for a long time. I bought it new and it arrived earlier than expected!! :)