Research Catalog

Title

Valentines : stories / Olaf Olafsson.

Author

Ólafur Jóhann Ólafsson.

Publication

New York : Pantheon Books, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

215 pages; 22 cm

Summary

"Valentines is a collection of thematically linked stories that encompasses the twelve months of a year, capturing the most candid moments between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children - when truths and true feelings surge to the surface and everything changes. Olaf Olafsson explores these dark epiphanies, when the heart is suddenly laid bare, whether by love or betrayal, disenchantment or regret, or the shock of loss. While their settings range from the East Coast to the West Coast, from Paris to Slovenia and Iceland, these contemporary stories probe the complexity of modern relationships over time. A wife realizes her closest confidante is much more than that. A father tries to make his new lover into the image of his late wife. A lusty photographer confronts his own mortality. A couple's long-anticipated anniversary vacation opens onto the past. A husband, a wife, a child, a boating accident: no harm done . . . and yet?" "Each of the twelve stories reveals another element in the agonizing nature of passion, diminished and yet sustained over time."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN

• 0375424687
• 9780375424687

LCCN

• 2006025508
• 9780375424687

OCLC

• OCM71004068
• 71004068
• SCSB-5312970

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries