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Seven Variations on a Love Story
Knopf
October 2012
On Sale: October 9, 2012
208 pages
ISBN: 0307958884
EAN: 9780307958884
Kindle: B007UH4E6C
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Fiction Family Life
“Joan Wickersham’s brilliant The News From Spain shows, in
all its twisty beauty, what a short story collection can do.
The stories are gorgeous in themselves, but the way they
speak to each other is truly extraordinary.” --Elizabeth
McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My
Imagination From the author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide
Index, a virtuosic collection of stories, each a
stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility
of understanding, much less controlling, it. 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
18th-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.
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