Description
Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller. His characters-men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception-are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight.
A young boy's fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family's secrets. The friendship between a West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. An acrobatic philanderer (one wife and two mistresses, all apparently quite happy) begins to crack under the weight of his abundance. By turns brooding and comic, and filled with the suspense that comes from the inexorable unfolding of character, Flights of Love is nothing less than masterful
Author: Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/12/2002
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.17w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780375725555
ISBN10: 0375725555
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
A young boy's fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family's secrets. The friendship between a West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. An acrobatic philanderer (one wife and two mistresses, all apparently quite happy) begins to crack under the weight of his abundance. By turns brooding and comic, and filled with the suspense that comes from the inexorable unfolding of character, Flights of Love is nothing less than masterful
Author: Bernhard Schlink
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 11/12/2002
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.17w x 0.75d
ISBN13: 9780375725555
ISBN10: 0375725555
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
About the Author
Bernhard Schlink is the author of the internationally best selling novel The Reader and of four crime novels, The Gordian Knot, Self Deception, Self-Administered Justice, and Self Slaughter, which are currently being translated into English. He is a professor at the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University, in New York.