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.
- ISBN10 0708994040
- ISBN13 9780708994047
- Publish Date 1 December 2002 (first published 2 October 2001)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 October 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher F A Thorpe (Publishers)
- Imprint Charnwood (Large Print)
- Edition Large type / large print edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 360
- Language English