Intimate Relations with Strangers: A Novel

Bernard, David Valentine

ISBN 10: 1416540369 / ISBN 13: 9781416540366

Published by Strebor Books, 2007

About this Item

First edition, first printing. Near fine in near fine DJ. Signed and dated by author on the half title page. DJ has not been price clipped and has no chips or tears, but there are a couple of pressure dents on the back.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Intimate Relations with Strangers: A Novel
• Publisher: Strebor Books
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416540369
• ISBN 13: 9781416540366
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

A powerful debut novel that blends time travel, fantasy, and mystery to portray a love story set in a post-9/11 America.

Set in a future where the threat of terrorism has seeped into everything, an American soldier finds himself at the vanguard of America's latest war. After a terrorist attack on the White House, America invades an African country in the Sahara. In the desert, the soldier begins to realize that memory itself can be used as a form of terrorism.

Years later, as a soldier in the war, he finds himself thinking a woman who he isn’t entirely sure is real, who had once miraculously appeared when he was growing up and told him of an impossible paradise. He yearns for both the woman and that paradise. In the Sahara, he sees horrors that seem to be the work of demons. After a year of war, his mind and soul are on the verge of collapse; by the time he sees the woman from his childhood marching through the desert, he has no choice but to surrender to his fantasies. In a world devastated by war and terrorism, only she gives him hope. When she again disappears, he is ready to move heaven and earth to find her. However, it is a quest that seems to have consequences for both his soul and America's.

Intimate Relations with Strangers explores the nature of reality, war, and love in such a way that “readers will remember this powerful, fable-like work of protest long after they’ve turned the last page” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).

About the Author

David Valentine Bernard, the author of seven novels, is currently finishing his PhD in sociology. Originally from the Caribbean nation of Grenada, he moved to Canada when he was four and to Brooklyn, New York, when he was nine. For more information, see www.dvbernard.com.