Fantasy and reality collide as the book's principal characters--two lovers--meet, part, and reunite, time and again, at different stages in life and in landscapes both familiar and exotic. Death appears as a genial waiter in a caf across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art; talking circus elephants console a ringmaster for his unrequited love; a young boy barters with pirates for his grandmother's soul; and as a refrigerator begins spilling mini-glaciers into a couple's East Village apartment, a voyage to Antarctica commences on an icy schooner waiting for them in Tompkins Square Park.

Love, and its mystery, is at the core of these self portraits, but love also for art, for adventure, and for the passion of being alive.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 09/13/2010
ISBN: 9780393079050
Pages: 232
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.66h x 6.54w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 07/19/2010
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2010
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/08/2010 pg. 26