The Destiny Of Nathalie Other Stories Author:William Boyd These eleven stories about love and desire, ambition and despair, take us back and forth through time from a contemporary Hollywood film shoot to World War I Vienna. In CORK, a bizarre tale of love in Lisbon, an Englishwoman and a Portuguese poet meet once a year through the 1930s and fulfill each other's fantastical desires; in ALPES-MARITIME... more »S, a young Englishman must decide between the German woman he's seeing and her twin sister; and in the title story, THE DESTINY OF NATHALIE X, a young, award-winning foreign director, in Los Angeles making a low-budget picture, gradually discovers that he, the cast, the crew and the entire troubled production are heading for unavoidable disaster. Confirmation of Boyd's standing as a master storyteller. "...Mr. Boyd's ability to zero in on ordinary human foibles and woes...is swift and sure...his eccentric wit and restless intelligence exert a powerful appeal." (New York Times Book Review)« less