Flights of Love Author:Bernhard Schlink In his characteristically unsentimental, elegant and spare prose, Schlink unveils characters and relationships haunted by betrayal and guilt, in situations where self-examination is inescapable. FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea of love - why people are drawn to it and why some run away. Schlink shows... more » us in turn love as desire, love as confusion, love as a quick affair, love as a drastic life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love as self-betrayal. The cumulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling language to examine the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship, however thwarted that desire ultimately is.« less
Classic Schlink....the endings always left me with that feeling of "that's how it's going to end?!" Just like The Reader. This book is comprised of 6 tales, so it is easy to read and put down for a few days then pick up again with no problems.