Descripción
In Anne Baldo's Morse Code for Romantics, patterns of life emerge-and break-in relationships both requited and otherwise. A restaurateur orchestrates a devious punishment for his wife's lover. A desperate mother searches for her missing daughter, a modern-day Persephone who was lured away by a sinister boyfriend. An islander falls under the spell of a visiting researcher, whose insidious smiles and natural sangfroid mirror the serpent-like sea monster he hunts.
These wistful, darkly surreal stories, set in Southern Ontario, suggest that maternal instinct is not just a chemical lie but something bloody and painful; that one person's clouds can rain on generations; and that true loneliness can be as clear as code written on a face, and as ominous as a dark, monstrous shape lurking beneath the surface.
Author: Anne Baldo
Publisher: Porcupine's Quill
Published: 03/03/2023
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.55w x 0.68d
ISBN13: 9780889844568
ISBN10: 0889844569
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary