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The News From Spain: Seven Variations On A Love Story (2012)

by Joan Wickersham(Favorite Author)

3.81 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0307958884 (ISBN13: 9780307958884)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Knopf

review 1: I don't usually read short story collections because I prefer the longer arc of a novel, but "The News from Spain" was recommended to me and I'm very glad to have read it. Each story reveals a different aspect of the intricacies of love: romantic and familial, requited and unrequited, transient and enduring. The language is lyrical and precise: "It was getting dark, the sudden darkness that falls over the Atlantic in winter: a somber shutting down, the ocean withdrawing and becoming invisible." This collection holds many surprises and discoveries for the reader.
review 2: It's a great concept and her writing is so good that it thrilled me and gave me that odd sense of relief: at last, I can sink into a book and not stand back from it, critically. All seven of t... morehese stories have the same title, but they are all completely different (except that they are about love, of every variety). I would have given it five stars, but the two last stories, that flip back and forth between a historical past and a more contemporary time, seemed more gimmicky than I prefer (especially the one featuring Casanova). But do read this, if only for the story of the paralyzed ballerina and her gay attendant. I mean it. less

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