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. John Wray is the acclaimed author of Lowboyand five other novels.
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