The Night Billy Was Born And Other Love Stories |
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Author:
| Cowley, Joseph |
ISBN: | 978-1-4697-4822-1 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2002 |
Publisher: | iUniverse, Incorporated
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $3.99 |
Book Description:
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The Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about love at all ages: the passionate affair of two teenagers; the delicate relationships between a brother and sister, their cousin, and their adotptive aunt and her dead husband; the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman; the love of a husband and his pregnant wife under straitened circumstances; an extra-marital affair between a divorced, unemployed writer and a beautiful married woman he meets in...
More DescriptionThe Night Billy Was Born and Other Love Stories is about love at all ages: the passionate affair of two teenagers; the delicate relationships between a brother and sister, their cousin, and their adotptive aunt and her dead husband; the obsession of a young man in his early twenties for an older woman; the love of a husband and his pregnant wife under straitened circumstances; an extra-marital affair between a divorced, unemployed writer and a beautiful married woman he meets in Alcoholics Anonymous; the unexpected love of a married woman in her fifties for another woman; the sentimental journey of an old man whose wife has recently died to find the love he left behind in war-torn England after World War II; and the loneliness of a woman nearing ninety who has no one, not even her husband, who is non compos mentis, to share her grief with over the death of her son.