Truelove Knot: A Novel of World War IIA recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters/Katherine Anne Porter Award for fiction in 2006, Arturo Vivante has been an acclaimed and beloved storyteller for over fifty years. Seventy of his short stories have appeared in The New Yorker. In his third and newest novel, Truelove Knot, he artfully orchestrates a tale of first love during World War II. "Arturo Vivante is a present past master of the lyric line, a poet of romantic possibility. And in this gripping tale of love at first sight in wartime, he writes with force and grace. The young couple, their friends and families, the Atlantic Ocean that divides them, the war itself--all these are vividly described." --Nicholas Delbanco, author of Spring and Fall and What Remains "Arturo Vivante's gifts as a writer--his gentle insight, his deep and passionate appreciation of the human drama--are thrillingly present in Truelove KnotGlimmering Girls: A Novel of the Fifties and This is a Voice from Your Past "Admirers of Arturo Vivante's fiction have reason to rejoice in this eagerly-awaited new novel which shows Vivante at the top of his form, with his characteristic exquisite prose and masterful story telling. . . . Truelove Knot is a vivid record of a part of World War II which has rarely been documented. It's a novel of suspense and surprises, but it is also a hauntingly beautiful tribute to the enduring power of love." --Corinne Demas, author of What We Save For Last and Eleven Stories High: Growing Up In Stuyvesant Town, 1948-1968 |
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Villa Solat́a I | 1 |
Northern Lights | 23 |
༢ St Helens Island | 44 |
Copyright | |
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