Isobel & Emile - Paperback
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Isobel & Emile - Paperback
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by Alan Reed (Author)
This is the story of Isobel and Emile.
They wake up beside each other one morning, and they slowly get out of bed. It is the last time that they will sleep together. They know it. They do not want it to be the last time but they know that it is. They get out of bed and they go to a train station. Emile gets onto a train. Isobel does not. She stands on the platform and she watches him go. He is going to the city, where he will be an artist. He will make puppets, and films of puppets, that struggle to say something he does not have the words for. She will stay in the small town, in the small room where they lived. She will work at a small grocery store and write letters to Emile while she works up the courage to do something more. Told in a stark, minimalist voice, Isobel and Emile is the hypnotizing story of two lovers without each other. It is a story of struggling with loss and a loneliness that threatens to consume them. It is about staying true to what they hold dear, no matter that it is hopeless and that nothing will ever come of it, because sometimes that is all that is left. And sometimes, it is enough.Author Biography
Alan Reed studied semiotics at the University of Toronto and writing at Dartington College of Arts (in the U.K.). He is the author of a collection of poems, For Love of the City (BuschekBooks), and two plays. Since 2005, he has been working as an experimental writer, making things that sit somewhere between writing, installation and performance art. This is his first novel. He lives in Montreal.
Number of Pages: 160
Dimensions: 0.55 x 7.4 x 4.96 IN
Publication Date: April 11, 2010
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