The Trial of True Love

Zusatztext “Deft and compelling. . . An intriguing romp through the many types of love between men and women! with an ending that twists and twists and twists some more - just like love itself.”— The Baltimore Sun “A real find: clever! funny! subtle and hopelessly romantic. . . . The key to this novel’s success is that it asks all the best questions. Does love at first sight really exist?” — Daily Express “Fascinating. . . . Fun and stimulating.” — Globe and Mail (Toronto)“Like The Society of Others ! William Nicholson's previous book! The Trial of True Love is shrewdly designed to lure the reader into an unsettling process of self-examination.” — The Philadelphia Inquirer Informationen zum Autor William Nicholson is the acclaimed author of the play Shadowlands , which was turned into a feature film starring Anthony Hopkins, for which he also wrote the screenplay. He has been the screenwriter for many other films, among them Gladiator . His first adult novel, The Society of Others , was published in 2005. He is also the award-winning author of the bestselling trilogy of novels for children, The Wind on Fire . Klappentext Bron is a thirty-year-old writer living in London! a seemingly incurable heartbreaker and dodger of commitment. He is fascinated by the symbolist artist Paul Marotte and has made the artist the center of a book he is writing about love at first sight. Bron goes to his friend's country house to work in solitude but encounters the beautiful! enigmatic Flora. Suddenly the theme of his book takes on a completely new! intensely personal dimension as Bron becomes dangerously smitten by the aloof beauty. Fast-paced! brilliantly crafted! and intellectually stimulating! The Trial of True Love is a captivating exploration of the nature of love! its elusiveness! and most of all! the universal human need to find it. Leseprobe Chapter 1 Here where two rivers meet by an island, in the early morning, shortly after dawn, there is a mist along the valleys. The sun rises over the railway bridge, white as a moon, and everything is still. I stand before Taw pool, watching the water eddy round the island, my breath cloudy and my thoughts far away. I do not anticipate. And yet there is a moment before the moment that is both a preparation and a culmination. What is about to happen to me is long longed-for, familiar, out of reach, needed, despaired of, completely imagined, but never known: so first, and memorably, comes the intimation that it is about to happen. The light falling from an opening door onto a winter's street. The silence before a phone begins to ring. Anticipation, in the razor-cut of time before it bursts into fulfilment. The Barnstaple train, headlamp furry in the mist, booms suddenly over the bridge. Rooks rattle out of invisible trees, cawing up into the sky. The premonitory sounds disperse into the slow tumble of the rivers, into my own quiet breaths. The smell of soaked grass and the sharp white air that makes me shiver and the silence after the train. And then I see her. This is a story about falling in love. The time is 1977, a generation ago. I am twenty-nine years old, and waiting for my real life to begin. I am engaged in this waiting process in the very small second bedroom of a very small flat in Cross Street in north London, owned by my friend Anna. She comes back earlier than usual and pours herself a glass of wine, which is not like her, not at five in the afternoon, and says we must talk. So I have a glass of wine too, and we talk. "The thing is this." She moves her hands carefully before her as if describing an invisible object about the size of a box-file. "This is the thing. I have to think of myself. I have to think of the future. I'll be thirty in January. Which is meaningless, of course. But I would like, one day, to have c...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: William Nicholson
• Verlag: Anchor Books USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 12.06.2007
• EAN: 9781400096619
• ISBN: 978-1-4000-9661-9
• Seiten: 304
• Abmessung: 133 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Serie: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Thema: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur