A riveting and deeply moving portrait of love and marriage.“His hand is growing cold, still she holds it.”The story unfolds over a single night, as Nina sits at the bedside of her husband Philip, whose sudden and unexpected death is the reason for her lonely vigil. Too shocked yet to grieve, she recalls the defining moments of their long marriage, beginning with their first meeting in Paris. As the reader is drawn through select memories – real and imagined – of events that occurred in places as...
A provocative and haunting new collection from critically acclaimed writer Lily Tuck, <i>Heathcliff Redux, A Novella and Stories</i> explores, with cool precision, the hidden dynamics and unspoken conflicts at the heart of human relationships.<BR><BR> In the novella, a married woman reads <i>Wuthering Heights</i> at the same time that she falls under the erotic and destructive spell of her own Heathcliff. In the stories that follow, a single photograph...