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Author Schlink, Bernhard.

Title Summer lies / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.

Publication Info. New York : Pantheon Books, 2012.

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  F SCHLINK, B.    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Adult Fiction  FICTION SCHLINK    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Adult Fiction  SCHLINK, BERNHARD    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  F SCHLINK, B.    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Adult Fiction  F SCHLINK, BERNHARD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  F-SCHLINK    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 229 pages ; 22 cm
Note "Originally published in Germany as Sommerlügen by Diogenes Verlag AG, Zurich, in 2010"--T.p. verso.
Contents After the season -- Night in Baden-Baden -- House in the forest -- Stranger in the night -- Last summer -- Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen -- Journey to the south.
Summary From Bernhard Schlink, the internationally best-selling author of The Reader, come seven provocative and masterfully calibrated stories. A keen dissection of the ways in which we play with truth and less-than-truth in our lives. Summer Lies brims with the delusions, the passions, the outbursts, and the sometimes irrational justifications people make within a mélange of beautifully rendered relationships. In "After the Season," a man falls quickly in love with a woman he meets on the beach but wrestles with his incongruous feelings of betrayal after he learns she's rich. In "Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen," a son tries to put his resentment toward his emotionally distant father behind him by proposing a trip to a Back festival but soon realizes, during his efforts to reconnect, that it wasn't his father who was the distant one. A philandering playwright is accused to infidelity by his wife in "The Night in Baden-Baden," but he sees her accusations as nothing more than a means to exculpate himself of his guilt as he carries on with his ways. And in "Stranger in the Night," an obliging professor becomes an accomplice--not entirely unwittingly--to the temporary escape of a charismatic fugitive on a delayed flight from New York to Frankfurt.The truth, as once character puts it, is "passionate, beautiful sometimes, and sometimes hideous, it can make you happy and it can torture you, and it always sets you free." Tantalizingly, so is the act of telling a lie--to others and to ourselves.
Subject Short stories.
Added Author Janeway, Carol Brown.
Added Title Sommerlügen. English
ISBN 9780307907264
0307907260
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