So This Is Love

Reid, Gilbert

ISBN 10: 1552636364 / ISBN 13: 9781552636367

Published by Key Porter Books, 2004

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: So This Is Love
• Publisher: Key Porter Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1552636364
• ISBN 13: 9781552636367
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

In an overcrowded hospital in war-torn Bosnia, a Muslim soldier and a young Serbian woman?one crippled, the other blind?find solace in each other in ?Pavilion 24.? In small-town Ontario, a father and daughter relive the summer when a mysterious, ethereal girl entered their lives and a brutal assault changed everything. In an apartment peopled with an eclectic mix of bohemian ex-patriots, a man pursues a young suicidal waif at the height of the sexual revolution in 1970s Paris. So this is love. This is squalor. From Paris to Italy to Bosnia to rural Ontario, these nine stories take the reader on a journey of love, sex, violence and the politics of desire. Here, memory and longing serve as a catalyst to truth and identity, and offer respite from a world gone achingly numb. Madly romantic, subtly subversive and utterly accomplished, Gilbert Reid?s collection is about love in all of its forms?sometimes sad, sometimes harsh, sometimes perverse, but always, always beautiful.

About the Author

Gilbert Reid is a film, television, and radio producer, and writer. Recently nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Documentary Writing for Storming the Ridge, he has worked on film projects with Marcello Mastroianni and others, and he has served on a number of film juries, including the Prix Vercorin in Switzerland. He worked as a diplomat in London and Rome, as an economist in Paris, and as a university lecturer in Sicily. He lives in Toronto.