
In this stunning novel, the renowned author of Evening "explores a tragic irony of love and sex: how one partner can reach the heights of devotion at the very instant the other is dumped into the pits of despair" (Time Out New York).
"Minot's...


Using a single interlude--a brief encounter of old lovers, two bodies entwined on a bed at midday--Minot defines the distance that erupts at what seems to be the height of connection, as well as the extent to which the senses deceive, and the intensely private eroticism of...



Using a single interlude--a brief encounter of old lovers, two bodies entwined on a bed at midday--Minot defines the distance that erupts at what seems to be the height of connection, as well as the extent to which the senses deceive, and the intensely private eroticism of...