Maybe This Time
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Maybe This Time
When in Rome..."I do" as the Romans do! Karen Patton's life is falling apart. She signed divorce papers, quit her job, and moved back to her hometown into an apartment that couldn't feel less like home. With two weeks of free time before she starts work at the Half Moon Bay Public Library, she's crawling the walls, trying desperately not to miss the man who chose his career over her. When an old college friend invites her to Italy for an impromptu wedding, she jumps at the chance to focus on something other than her own misery. Tate Patton is doing his best to ignore the divorce papers that just landed on his desk. A rational, reasonable man would sign and be done with it. Instead, he seizes upon a wedding invitation to do something completely impetuous—ignore the papers and fly to Rome. When they lay eyes on each other, the sparks fly as hot as the first time they met. Maybe the more mature versions of themselves can fix what's broken. Their love is too strong not to try... Note: this book was previously published as Roman Reunion by Crystal Jordan.
Maybe This Time
She'd been eaten up with guilt all her life, afraid to face the truth, and now, in some strange way, by recalling what had happened in her family she felt almost liberated. It was as if a great weight had suddenly been lifted off her shoulders and now she was free-except for the door that had closed against her heart where Max was concerned. Bile rose in her throat thinking of him and once started she couldn't stop crying as she suffered through the slow, agonizing death of her soul.
Maybe This Time
A spellbinding short story collection by one of Austria's most critically acclaimed authors. A man becomes obsessed with observing his neighbours. A large family gathers for Christmas only to wait for the one member who never turns up. An old woman lures a man into her house where he finds dolls resembling himself as a boy. Mesmerizing and haunting stories about loss of identity in the modern world. Why Peirene chose to publish this book: 'I love Kafka and here we have a Kafkaesque sense of alienation - not to mention narrative experiments galore! Outwardly normal events slip into drama before they tip into horror. These oblique tales exert a fascinating hold over the reader.' Meike Ziervogel 'Clever and enticing.' Alexander Starritt, Times Literary Supplement 'Not since Julio Cortázar's game of Hopscotch . . . has an author so daringly undertaken to challenge the reader.' Amanda Hopkinson, Independent 'It is . . . very refreshing to be confronted by stories which so firmly refuse to yield to conventional interpretation.' Nicholas Lezard, Guardian 'This award-winning collection by the Austrian writer Alois Hotschnig drew comparisons with Kafka. But Hotschnig's quietly terrifying voice is all his own.' Jane Shilling, Daily Mail 'Intriguing and powerful.' Pam Norfolk, Lancashire Evening Post GUARDIAN PAPERBACKS OF THE YEAR 2011