I can't say I love this book, as there were many, many times when it felt like I was slogging through a marsh, and reading it was less wonder than it was work. But I found myself so attached to (oddly) the 40-something gay attourney, Martin, and related to him so fiercely that there's no way I ca...
I found this a somewhat difficult book to read due to the dense writing style, with long sentences, interspersed by many qualifiers, and a somewhat ostentatious verbiage, and told in alternating segments dealing with several characters whose connection is Wagner's "Tristan & Isolde". There are se...
After his arrival at the Gare du Nord, Lucien took a carriage to the Île, where he found his father about to sit down for lunch. As much as Lucien might have wished otherwise, his gaunt expression could not disguise a continuing struggle with grief, even now, four years after Eduard’s death. “I w...