Full name: Summer Lies: Stories

Author: Bernhard Schlink Year: 2010 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Short Stories Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9781611209358 9783257067538 1611209358 3257067534

The truth is, as a character in this provocative new collection puts it, "passionate, beautiful, and hideous, it can make you happy and it can torture you, and it's always liberating." In "After the Season," a man of humble means falls quickly in love with a woman belonging to a much elevated financial status and wrestles with his feelings and his beliefs about the rich. A son takes his distant father to a Bach festival in "Johann Sebastian Bach on Ruegen" only to learn that perhaps he was the one who was never really present in their relationship. And in "The Night in Baden-Baden" a man who's caught in a lie changes his ways - by sleeping with another woman only after being accused. Similar books: Three Paths to the Lake by Ingeborg Bachmann The Thirtieth Year by Ingeborg Bachmann The Toughest Indian in the World by Sherman Alexie Crime by Ferdinand von Schirach Birds of America by Lorrie Moore Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez Exercises in Style by Raymond Queneau Goodbye, Columbus by Philip Roth In Search of Satisfaction by J. California Cooper A Manual for Cleaning Women by Lucia Berlin Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout A Piece of Mine by J. California Cooper The Matter Is Life by J. California Cooper Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime by J. California Cooper Some Soul To Keep by J. California Cooper I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down by William Gay Thirteen Ways of Looking by Colum McCann Something Rich and Strange by Ron Rash