Description: Schlink, internationally acclaimed and bestselling author of "The Reader, " brings a sleek concision and moral acuity to these seven tales of modern men uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight. Brooding, comic, and filled with psychological suspense, "Plights of Love" is nothing less than masterful.
Review Quotes: "Intimate, smart, powerful. . . . As memorable as The Reader. . . . Dazzling." -The Washington Post
"Powerful. . . .Elegantly constructed. . . . Schlink is possessed with a coolly direct manner of interrogating the confused motives of the human heart." -The New York Times Book Review "[An] outstanding collection." -The Wall Street Journal "Riveting. . . . Mature and disturbing." -Los Angeles Times