Penguin Books Winter 2013 - Bookseller Services - Penguin Group
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ISbN 978-0-14-312152-7 $15.00 ($16.00 CAN)<br />
Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 176 pp. Rights: E00<br />
A <strong>Penguin</strong> Original Agent: The Wylie Agency<br />
Audio: <strong>Penguin</strong> On sale: 1/29/<strong>2013</strong><br />
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There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby<br />
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Praise for There Once Lived<br />
a Woman . . . :<br />
“ [An] exquisite<br />
collection.”<br />
—The New York Times<br />
Book Review<br />
“ A revelation.”<br />
—James Wood, The New Yorker<br />
Book Bench’s Best <strong>Books</strong> of<br />
the Year<br />
40 FebRuARy Online Publicity<br />
Love stories, with a twist:<br />
the eagerly awaited follow-up<br />
to the great Russian writer’s<br />
New York Times bestselling<br />
scary fairy tales<br />
There Once Lived<br />
a Girl Who Seduced<br />
Her Sister’s Husband,<br />
and He Hanged Himself<br />
Love Stories<br />
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya<br />
Selected and Translated by Anna Summers<br />
By turns sly and sweet, burlesque and heartbreaking, these realist<br />
fables of women looking for love are the stories that Ludmilla<br />
Petrushevskaya—who has been compared to Chekhov, Tolstoy,<br />
Beckett, Poe, Angela Carter, and even Stephen King—is best<br />
known for in Russia. Here are attempts at human connection, both<br />
depraved and sublime, by people in all stages of life: one-night<br />
stands in communal apartments, poignantly awkward couplings,<br />
office trysts, schoolgirl crushes, elopements, tentative courtships,<br />
and rampant infidelity, shot through with lurid violence, romantic<br />
illusion, and surprising tenderness.<br />
n There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby was<br />
a New York Times bestseller, one of New York magazine’s 10 Best <strong>Books</strong><br />
of the Year, one of NPR’s 5 Best Works of Foreign Fiction, and the winner<br />
of a World Fantasy Award<br />
n Stories from this collection are scheduled to appear in Playboy, the Paris<br />
Review, the Baffler, and Zoetrope<br />
n Publishing for Valentine’s Day<br />
ludMillA PetRushevskAyA has published stories in the New<br />
Yorker, Harper’s Magazine, and n + 1. Born in 1938, she is one of Russia’s most<br />
celebrated contemporary authors. She lives in Moscow.<br />
AnnA suMMeRs is the coeditor and co-translator of Ludmilla<br />
Petrushevskaya’s There Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s<br />
Baby and the literary editor of the Baffler. Born in Moscow, she now lives in<br />
Cambridge, Massachusetts.