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Review by
Ticonderoga(6990) on 04/11/2003
Three novellas for the price of one. Insightful, delicate, tender, unflinchingly emotionally honest, magical and haunting, these tales of love and loss are written in prose so beautiful and simple that it "doesn't merely aspire to the condition of music but actually achieves it." The stories of Don Juan and Tristan and Isolde are ingeniously re-invented and the first piece is a mesmerising, painful and funny monologue spoken by a betrayed wife to someone she has chosen to show round as a prospective buyer, all the while associating rooms and articles in the house with the various crises connected with her husband's infidelity.......
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