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Flights of Love
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Flights of Love
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Prof Bernhard Schlink
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:320 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 133,Width 199 |
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| Category/Genre | Anthologies
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Short stories |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780753813973
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| Classifications | Dewey:833.914 |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Orion Publishing Co
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| Imprint |
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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| Publication Date |
7 October 2002 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
A mesmeric collection of stories about love. In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea of love - why people are drawn to it and why some run away. Schlink shows us in turn love as desire, love as confusion, love as a quick affair, love as a drastic life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love as self-betrayal. The cumulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling language to examine the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship, however thwarted that desire ultimately is.
Author Biography
Bernhard Schlink was born in Germany in 1944. A professor of law at the University of Berlin and a practising judge, he is the author of the major international best-selling novel The Reader as well as several prize-winning crime novels. He lives in Bonn and Berlin.
ReviewsReviews for the paperback of this are just coming in with ones in THE INDEPENDENT, the following from THE GUARDIAN 'Throughout, he turns tricky subjects into readable stories'Isabel Montgomery, THE GUARIDAN and ''As you acquait yourself with the cast of FLIGHTS OF LOVE you become completely wrapped up in th
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