The Secret Lives of People in Love
Publisher: Turtle Point Press
Published: May 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9781933527055
Subjects: Modern fiction; Short stories; Fiction; Fiction - General; Romance: Modern; General; Fiction / General; Romance - General
Description: "Little Birds" is narrated by a teenage boy of uncertain parentage who sketches his life with his devoted foster father, Michel, in working-class Paris: "It is the afternoon of my birthday, but still the morning of my life. I am walking on the Pont des Arts." In "Some Bloom in Darkness," an aging railroad station clerk's witness of a violent scene between a man and woman translates in his mind into an infatuation with a store mannequin. Other tales are set in Rome.