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Author:	Ivan Klima	Format:	Paperback
Publisher:	Grove Pr	ISBN-10:	0802137474
ISBN-13:	9780802137470	Subject:	Romance
Publication Year:	2000	Topic:	--
Special Attributes:	--	Language:	--
Condition:	Good

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All of these wry, skeptical, and profoundly perceptive stories are meditations on the theme of love, and many of them are set in Prague. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999.
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Height:	8.3 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	9.6 oz.

Publisher's Note
A collection of short stories by the author of Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light includes the tale of a doctor who has escaped to London and returns to communist Czechoslovakia to be with a woman only to discover too late that he barely knows her and the story of a young woman begins an affair with an older man. Reprint.
Industry reviews
"LOVERS FOR A DAY reveals the increasing complexity of Klima's vision as he confronts universal paradoxes of modern life." Boston Book Review - Elizabeth Shostak (09/19/1999) "[T]he early stories--stories of waiting--are the true gems of the collection, sparkling introductions to yet another Czech genius produced by the crush of Hapsburgs and Stalins....But there is a naked earnestness to the characters and their conversations in the more recent stories that supports the contention that silence, cunning and the shadows of a foreign language are the best friends a writer can hope for." Levi "[The subject of the book] might seem very bleak, but the stories, smoothly and lyrically translated by Gerald Turner, don't read that way. They are often funny and always refreshingly unsentimental. Love is the subject here, but not as the holy grail that so much writing about love makes it out to be." Gaffney

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Lovers for a Day: New and Collected Stories on Love

Ivan Klima

Book Notes:
Binding:	Paperback
Book Condition:	Good
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ISBN:	0802137474
Publication Date:	2000-11-30
Publisher:	Grove Press

Pages:	240
Height:	0.7300 inches
Width:	5.4800 inches
Weight:	0.6500 pounds

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