The Steel Kiss
Author | : Alex Woolf |
Publisher | : Andrews UK Limited |
Total Pages | : 68 |
Release | : 2014-05-27 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781849897433 |
ISBN-13 | : 1849897433 |
Rating | : 4/5 (433 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Steel Kiss written by Alex Woolf and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each of these nine stories explores a symptom of that pathology we call love. We meet a volatile woman whose husband betrays her once too often; a man who takes advantage of an amnesiac girl; a woman prepared to break a man's spirit in order to win his heart; and a young man who obsesses about strangers on trains. We learn the corrosive power of secrets over the long course of a marriage, the way the pressure of years of conformity can explode in a single shocking act, and how love of the patriotic kind can, for a young soldier, end up brutalising the soul. By turns disturbing, funny, bittersweet and poignant, these are love stories of the darkest and most dangerous kind.