THE LOVERS AND OTHER STORIES

by Pearl S. Buck ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 1, 1977

Seven tinkerbell short stories and one novella about love, most of which must have first resounded some decades ago, judging by internal evidence: ""Good God,"" exclaims a successful doctor, ""This means I am earning over ten thousand a year!"" ""At least that,"" replies a secretary. Among the plights of the trothed or otherwise linked: two physicians, a mother and daughter, realize that they might lose their men to total wives; two women love the same man (""What does a man want? Only everything! And between us, my dear, we must give it to him""); a bachelor doctor falls for a female peer who loves her work but finally knuckles under, ""eyes dewy and lips quivering, her face all sensitive and alive and shy and bewildered at once."" In other chaste tributes to Eros (sex is strictly hat-and-gloves with a penultimate kiss), an old flame is extinguished; a couple meet for weekly brief interludes at an eatery; and an imminent divorce is forestalled. Alert only the late laureate's following, who remember when the spiciest thing in the women's magazines was a recipe for mustard sauce, and when stories often featured women who turned up their faces like roses and quivered into the coils of their stethoscopes.

Pub Date: July 1, 1977

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: John Day/T. Y. Crowell

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1977

Categories: FICTION