Set in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Africa, and Canada, "So This is Love" brings together nine powerful stories that mix violence and desire, sex and murder, past and present. In sparkling, insightful prose that recalls Milan Kundera and Ian McEwan, Gilbert Reid takes the reader on a journey through warzones, bohemian apartments, idyllic rural farms, and the dark streets of Rome. Madly romantic, subtly subversive, and utterly accomplished, his collection of stories is about love, sex, and the politics of desire - sometimes ...
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Set in France, Italy, Yugoslavia, Africa, and Canada, "So This is Love" brings together nine powerful stories that mix violence and desire, sex and murder, past and present. In sparkling, insightful prose that recalls Milan Kundera and Ian McEwan, Gilbert Reid takes the reader on a journey through warzones, bohemian apartments, idyllic rural farms, and the dark streets of Rome. Madly romantic, subtly subversive, and utterly accomplished, his collection of stories is about love, sex, and the politics of desire - sometimes sad, sometimes harsh, sometimes perverse, but always beautiful.
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New. Hardcover New Ships From Canada New in new dust jacket Glued binding Paper over boards With dust jacket 223 p Audience: General/trade Book Description: Adroitly capturing love and all its nuances, So This Is Love pulsates with underlying currents of violence, sex, passion, and the politics of desire Tracing the globe, individuals find themselves caught in the entanglements of memory, forgetting, and the imminent future In an overcrowded hospital in war-torn Bosnia, a Muslim soldier and a young Serbian woman---one crippled, the other blind---find solace in each other In small-town Ontario, a father and daughter relive the summer when an ethereal girl entered their lives and a brutal assault changed everything In an apartment peopled with an eclectic mix of bohemian expatriates, a man pursues a young suicidal waif at the height of the sexual revolution in 1970s Paris So this is love In sparkling, insightful prose, Gilbert Reid s provocative debut collection takes the reader on a journey t.
