Flights of Love: Stories

Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller.

His characters-men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception-are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight.

A young boy's fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family's secrets. The friendship between a West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. An acrobatic philanderer (one wife and two mistresses, all apparently quite happy) begins to crack under the weight of his abundance. By turns brooding and comic, and filled with the suspense that comes from the inexorable unfolding of character, Flights of Love is nothing less than masterful

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 11/12/2002
ISBN: 9780375725555
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.54lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.17w x 0.75d

Review Citations: New York Times 11/24/2002 pg. 36