{"product_id":"the-news-from-spain-seven-variations-on-a-love-story","title":"The News from Spain: Seven Variations on a Love Story -","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Joan Wickersham's brilliant The News From Spain shows, in all its twisty beauty, what a short story collection can do. The stories are gorgeous in themselves, but the way they speak to each other is truly extraordinary.  --Elizabeth McCracken, author of An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the author of the acclaimed memoir The Suicide Index, a virtuosic collection of stories, each a stirring parable of the power of love and the impossibility of understanding, much less controlling, it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these seven beautifully wrought variations on a theme, a series of characters trace and retrace eternal yet ever-changing patterns of love and longing, connection and loss. The stories range over centuries and continents--from 18th-century Vienna, where Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte are collaborating on their operas, to America in the 1940s, where a love triangle unfolds among a doctor, a journalist, and the president's wife. A race-car driver's widow, a nursing-home resident and her daughter, a paralyzed dancer married to a famous choreographer--all feel the overwhelming force of passion and renunciation. With uncanny emotional exactitude, Wickersham shows how we never really know what's in someone else's heart, or in our own; how we continually try to explain others and to console ourselves; and how love, like storytelling, is ultimately a work of the imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joan Wickersham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44252371451964,"sku":"9780307958884","price":597.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/the-news-from-spain-seven-variations-on-a-love-story-9780307958884.jpg?v=1776810074","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/the-news-from-spain-seven-variations-on-a-love-story","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}