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      Flights of Love

      by Bernhard Schlink
      Published
      Oct 2001
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      Bernhard Schlink brings to these seven superbly crafted stories the same sleek concision and moral acuity that made The Reader an international bestseller.

      His characters–men with importunate appetites and unfortunate habits of deception–are uneasily suspended between the desire for love and the impulse toward flight.

      A young boy's fascination with an eerily erotic painting gradually leads him into the labyrinth of his family's secrets. The friendship between a West Berliner and an idealistic young couple from the East founders amid the prosperity and revelations that follow the collapse of communism. An acrobatic philanderer (one wife and two mistresses, all apparently quite happy) begins to crack under the weight of his abundance. By turns brooding and comic, and filled with the suspense that comes from the inexorable unfolding of character, Flights of Love is nothing less than masterful

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      Nov 2002 Vintage ISBN13 9780375725555 ISBN10 0375725555
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      Jan 2001 Orion (UK) ISBN13 9780753813973 ISBN10 0753813971
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      First Edition Oct 2001 Pantheon (UK) ISBN13 9780375420900 ISBN10 0375420908
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      Dec 2007 Knopf ISBN13 9780307425935 ISBN10 0307425932
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      Dec 2007 Vintage ISBN10 B000XUBDEY
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      Dec 2007 Weidenfeld & Nicolson ISBN13 9781780221441 ISBN10 1780221444
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      Dec 2002 Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN13 9780708994047 ISBN10 0708994040
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