This author begins bleeding from his mouth in a restaurant and dies in Raymond Carver’s story “Errand.” The title woman of a story by this author is devoted to and marries a theater owner, then a lumber merchant, and then a veterinarian. This author of “The Darling” wrote a “Little Trilogy” which includes a story in which the narrator says that every happy person should be reminded with a hammer that unhappy people exist. Another story by this author ends with the realization that (*) “the hardest, the most complicated part was only just beginning.” In a story by this author, Nikolai’s brother decries him for eating the title fruits. A man reunites with his lover at a performance of The Geisha in a story by this author in which Dmitri Gurov begins an affair with Anna Sergeyevna in Yalta. For 10 points, name this author of “Gooseberries” and “The Lady with the Dog.” ■END■
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