6 rows · · Overview. From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Find Summer Lies by Schlink, Bernhard at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. · Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In ”After the Season,” a man falls quickly in love with a woman he meets on the beach but wrestles with his incongruous feelings of betrayal after he learns she’s www.doorway.ru: Vintage.
From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions. Although Bernard Schlink is the author of seven previous books, readers will recognize his name most readily as the author of the international bestseller, The www.doorway.ru, in Summer Lies, he. In Schlink's trademark spare prose, we come face to face with the desires and jealousies that define our daily lives, with the fragility of happiness and with the abiding possibility of hope. Tender yet unsentimental, achingly personal yet utterly universal, SUMMER LIES asks what it means to love, to deceive and, ultimately, to be human.
Summer Lies. Bernhard Schlink, trans. from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Pantheon, $ (p) ISBN The Reader (unabr.) Most of the seven short stories in Schlink’s. Bernhard Schlink's collection of stories, Summer Lies, is always gracefully written but not always compelling because too many key characters, plots, and themes are borderline trivial or simply trivialized. Unlike many novelists, who use short fiction as a rest stop on the highway to longer works, Schlink seems to have lingered with these stories. Each story in “Summer Lies” has heft, solidity.
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