Is love the most revolutionary of all acts?
In this wide-ranging
collection of twelve short stories, a startling array of characters
explore their perspectives on love. The stories sweep from sharp realism
to heady allegory, haunting fables to sci-fi thrillers, starring teens
and drifting husbands, futuristic automatons and talking dogs, gardeners
and gatekeepers, a blind girl, a young father, and many more.
In
"Calamity Jane," see love through the eyes of teenage boys obsessed
with the calamitous girl of the title; revisit the famous Greek love
story in "Orpheus and Eurydice"; Dan's mechanical automaton seems to be
his truest friend in the harshly conformist world of
"Automatonomatopoeia"; a Crimean revolutionary gets waylaid at a
mysterious gate in "The Invitation"; on a construction site in
Yugoslavia, a young man tries to come to grips with unconventional
fatherhood in "Vikings"; and in "The Conversation", a blind woman
manages her relationship with a hectoring mother while finding other
types of love.
These are just a few of the tales in Resistance,
Revolution and Other Love Stories. Anyone interested in the struggle
against stifling societal powers and the potency of love will see some
of themselves in these pages. By turns exciting, meditative, and funny,
these enjoyable, thought-provoking stories will linger long after the
book is closed.
Let the revolution begin!...