Love's Labours - Softcover

Pulaski, Jack

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1937677044 ISBN 13: 9781937677046

Verlag: Fomite, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

In the four stories and two novellas that comprise Love’s Labors the protagonists Ben and Laura, discover in their fervid romance and long marriage their interlocking fates, and the histories that preceded their births. They also learned something of the paradox between love and all the things it brings to its beneficiaries: bliss, disaster, duty, tragedy, comedy, the grotesque, and tenderness.Ben and Laura’s story is also the particularly American tale of immigration to a new world. Laura’s story begins in Puerto Rico, and Ben’s lineage is Russian-Jewish. They meet in City College of New York, a place at least analogous to a melting pot. Laura struggles to rescue her brother from gang life and heroin. She is mother to her younger sister; their mother Consuelo is the financial mainstay of the family and consumed by work. Despite filial obligations, Laura aspires to be a serious painter. Ben writes, cares for and is caught up in the misadventures and surreal stories of his younger schizophrenic brother. Laura is also a story teller as powerful and enchanting as Scheherazade. Ben struggles to survive such riches, and he and Laura endure.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Fomite
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1937677044
• ISBN 13: 9781937677046
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 238
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