Author: David Updike
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"There were not different kinds of love, the argument seemed to go, but just one great and universal love, of which all the others were fragments, diffractions, variations on a theme."
In this brilliantly told short story collection, critically acclaimed author David Updike skillfully portrays the intricacies of loving someone and the multifaceted nature of the heart.
A father's painful realization that his son has discovered the dark heart of racism still beats...A quiet love affair that needs an audience to bloom...The bumbling of a professor who unwittingly falls for one of his students...The wistful memories of a bittersweet affair tinged in regret...
Full of sparkling wonder and poignant melancholy alike, Old Girlfriends is a clear-eyed vision of the world we live in. Drifting from the unrequited to the secretive, the familial to love's first poetic moments, this soulful collection leaves no avenue of expression unexplored.
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