Flights of Love
Author(s): Bernhard Schlink
'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' from the bestselling author of THE READER. A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea of love - why people are drawn to it and why some run away. Schlink shows us in turn love as desire, love as confusion, love as a quick affair, love as a drastic life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love as self-betrayal. The cumulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling language to examine the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship, however thwarted that desire ultimately is.
Product Information
The Reader established a huge readership - over 320,000 paperbacks sold to date Paperback edition of The Reader has been reprinted twenty times Flights of Love is a Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller Bernhard Schlink's writing has popular appeal - The Reader was an 'Oprah Choice' Flights of Love has been in the German bestseller lists since publication 12 months ago - over 300,000 hardcovers sold 'Perfectly crafted, intricate and haunting stories' Financial Times 'This new book will delight and surprise Schlink's admirers while converting his critics. It has a humour, lightness of touch, beguiling candour and subtle irony' Irish Times 'Subtly nuanced, often elegaic and especially eloquent about the need for compassion and collective responsibility' Time Out
General Fields
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- : Phoenix Books
- : Phoenix Books
- : 0.297
- : 01 August 2002
- : 198mm X 129mm X 26mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Bernhard Schlink
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : English
- : very good
- : 320
