Loves That Bind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 04/28/1998
Emil, the mysterious narrator, has been abandoned by the woman he loves. Filled with doubt and nostalgia, bent on therapy or distraction or revenge, he resolves to wander the city in search of his fugitive lover and write to her concerning all his conquests before her: 26 letters about 26 women, each bearing an uncanny resemblance to a famous heroine of literature, from Proust's Albertine to Fitzgerald's Daisy to Nabokov's Lolita to Queneau's Zazie. One by one, from A to Z, Emil's letters adopt the tone, style, and substance of the great novels of the 20th century -- while, in retrospect, his past love affairs grow increasingly extravagant and hallucinatory.
A seductive puzzle saturated with word-play, Loves That Bind is the book that will establish Julian Rios on these shores once and for all.
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