Book takes long, hard look at love

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From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Date: 19990627
Author:FRAN ZELL

Who Do You Love. By Jean Thompson. Harcourt Brace. 306 pages. $23.

How does love go wrong? Let me count the ways. That would be an apt subtitle for this startling collection of short stories, with heartfelt apologies, of course, to Elizabeth Barrett Browning and all other still-living and -breathing romantics.

Jean Thompson examines the tough, often grotesque complexities of love at the end of the millennium and runs head-on into a barnyard of other all-too-familiar animals: loneliness, despair, grief, alienation, violent death. Yet each of the 15 stories in this volume sparkles like a world ...

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