In Love

Hayes's masterpiece is an exquisite depiction of a doomed love affair set in noirish, 1950s New York. In a Manhattan bar, a middle-aged man tells a pretty girl a story: of how he fell into a relationship with a lonely young divorcee; of how one night she was offered a thousand dollars to sleep with a stranger; and of how he and she would subsequently betray each other in turn. In Alfred Hayes's exquisite novella, love - in all its bewildering turns of longing, elation, heartbreak and regret - is dissected with unforgettable honesty and heartbreaking clarity.

Product details

• Authors: Alfred Hayes, Hayes Alfred
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 26.01.2017
• EAN: 9780241307137
• ISBN: 978-0-241-30713-7
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 7 mm
• Series: Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Classics, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary