Who says one's first great love need be human? After a long-haired Alsatian named Tulip comes into his life, the arch, grouchy Ackerley is transformed before our eyes from a middle-aged London cynic into a poet of heartbreak. She's as flawed and feckless as the rest of us, which is one reason the novel is a cornerstone of literary modernism.
She's not a particularly sympathetic figure. Portia, a lonely 16-year-old who falls for an unsavory family friend, hurls herself into the lopsided affair like a suicide jumping into the sea. This is first love as tragedy - nowadays one might call it trauma. The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen (1938) It's achingly beautiful, magnificently sad. He claimed to have taken it directly from his own life. First Love was his favorite of his own works, dearer to him than Fathers and Sons. Is there any more literary subject than first love? I'd say not - and Ivan Turgenev, Russian literature's great romantic, would have agreed. First Love and Other Stories by Ivan Turgenev (1860)
In his latest, Gone to the Wolves, a teenager falls for a fellow death metal fan, turning their coming of age into a unique love story - much like the unique love stories Wray recommends below. Urn:oclc:762173732 Republisher_date 20120627071518 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120626025053 Scanner Wray is the acclaimed author of Lowboyand five other novels. OL43350W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.45 Pages 310 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 643 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0199540403
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