: Alex Woolf
: Steel Kiss Tales of Love, Obsession, Madness and Deceit
: Andrews UK
: 9781849897433
: 1
: CHF 2.50
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: Erzählende Literatur
: English
Each of these nine stories explores a symptom of that pathology we call love. We meet a volatile woman whose husband betrays her once too often, a man who takes advantage of an amnesiac girl, a woman prepared to break a man's spirit in order to win his heart, and a young man who obsesses about strangers on trains. We learn the corrosive power of secrets over the long course of a marriage, the way the pressure of years of conformity can explode in a single shocking act, and how love of the patriotic kind can, for a young soldier, end up brutalising the soul. By turns disturbing, funny, bittersweet and poignant, these are love stories of the darkest and most dangerous kind.