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News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story
News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story | Joan Wickersham
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A "San Francisco Chronicle" and NPR Best Book of the Year The author of the acclaimed memoir "The Suicide Index" returns with a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding it. Spanning centuries and continents, from eighteenth-century Vienna to contemporary America, Joan Wickersham shows, with uncanny exactitude, how we never really know what's in someone else's heart--or in our own.
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A book of short stories that are linked only by the phrase “the news from Spain.” The various contexts in which it emerged in each tale created a sense of anticipation that captivated me. The book itself is a meditation on all the things love is or can be: Love between wives and husbands, parents and children, caregivers and those in their care, friends, lovers – the countless ways it conforms, fails, confuses, surprises and enriches us.

Well-ReadNeck Stacked!!! 5y
Amiable @Well-ReadNeck I'm not normally a reader of short stories, but I was surprised by how much I enjoyed this collection! 5y
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