The News From Spain : : Seven Variations on a Love Story

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In these seven beautifully wrought variations on a theme, a series of characters trace and retrace eternal yet ever-changing patterns of love and longing, connection and loss. The stories range over centuries and continents--from eighteenth-century Vienna, where Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte are collaborating on their operas, to America in the 1940s, where a love triangle unfolds among a doctor, a journalist, and the president's wife. A race-car driver's widow, a nursing-home resident and her daughter, a paralyzed dancer married to a famous choreographer, all feel the overwhelming force of passion and renunciation. With uncanny emotional exactitude, Wickersham shows how we never really know what's in someone else's heart, or in our own; how we continually try to explain others and to console ourselves; and how love, like storytelling, is ultimately a work of the imagination.

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A String of Vignettes submitted by lifeisamuse on June 25, 2013, 10:37pm I really enjoy reading and watching works oriented around a string of vignettes, and this book was no exception. Some of the stories were more compelling than others, but together they highlighted the myriad forms relationships between significant others may take with a surprising amount of adultery in the mix. The thread that these stories hung on was a phrase--"the news from Spain"--rather than the typical individual, age, gender, or event that usually motivates a collection like this.