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An edition of Lovers for a day (1999)

Lovers for a day

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"In these stories, the dreams and frustrations of students and factory workers living under the totalitarianism of the 1960s evolve into portraits of people in the 1990s, struggling with responsibility, fidelity, and absence, haunted by a terrible guilt when their desires become reality. In "Honeymoon," a recently married woman goes on a honeymoon trip with a man who is not her husband.

In "Heaven, Hell, Paradise," a doctor who has escaped communist Czechoslovakia sacrifices that freedom to return and be with the woman he loves - realizing too late that they do not really know each other. "Uranus in the House of Death," a contemporary story, displays Klima's dry wit as a vain theater director, set to fly to Australia for a conference and a little womanizing, dissolves in doubt when his lover's astrologer predicts a plane crash.

And in "A Baffling Choice," a young wife, haunted by her generation's petty foibles, begins an affair with an elderly bookbinder who lives in her apartment building and risks destroying her family."--BOOK JACKET.

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Publisher
Grove Press
Language
English
Pages
229

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Lovers for a day
1999, Grove Press
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Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
891.8/6354
Library of Congress
PG5039.21.L5 L68 1999, PG5039.21.L5L68 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
229 p. ;
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL38925M
Internet Archive
loversforday00klim
ISBN 10
0802116515
LCCN
99027586
OCLC/WorldCat
41211472
Library Thing
409658
Goodreads
4011724

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