The news from Spain : seven variations on a love story / Joan Wickersham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickersham, Joan.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Man-woman relationships--Fiction.

Man-woman relationships.

Genre:

Fiction.

Love stories.

Physical Description:

208 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Seven variations on a love story

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.

Summary:

In these seven beautifully wrought variations on a theme, a series of characters trace and retrace eternal yet ever-changing patterns of love and longing, connection and loss. The stories range over centuries and continents--from eighteenth-century Vienna, where Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte are collaborating on their operas, to America in the 1940s, where a love triangle unfolds among a doctor, a journalist, and the president's wife. A race-car driver's widow, a nursing-home resident and her daughter, a paralyzed dancer married to a famous choreographer, all feel the overwhelming force of passion and renunciation. With uncanny emotional exactitude, Wickersham shows how we never really know what's in someone else's heart, or in our own; how we continually try to explain others and to console ourselves; and how love, like storytelling, is ultimately a work of the imagination.

ISBN:

9780307958884 :

0307958884 :

OCLC:

769424726