Dancing to the End of Love [Kindle Edition]

Adrian White (Author)

Book Description

"Kafka-liscious!"

A love story for the times we live in.

"I live in Pisa with Maria. She's the reason that I'm here. Maria Gabriela Carbone - an Italian Scot, or a Scottish Italian, depending on her moods, which are many and extreme. Carrier of a gene that will kill her sooner rather than later, so we forgive the mood swings. We forgive her because she is what she is - everything to me and everything that I'm not. No doubt she'd tell me that she's not mine to forgive and I'd agree, but forgive her anyway."

A man is arrested and held without trial as part of the War on Terror. A woman pays out a fortune to persuade the father of her child not to contest his parental rights. An Italian girl with Cystic Fibrosis cuts herself off from her family and yet fears she'll die alone.

Many lives; one true love.

Literary fiction at its very best and most accessible. This is the complete edition of Dancing to the End of Love.

Editorial Reviews

Review

A selection of comments made by editors of  publishing houses in response to Dancing to the End of Love.

"An interesting, unusual and chilling narrative."--Simon & Schuster

"An intense, vigorous piece of work." --Time Warner

"I enjoyed this tense and absorbing novel." --Weidenfeld & Nicholson

"Almost faultless." --Canongate Books

From the Author

This is a love story about a man who finds it hard to love. The novel grew and grew, building initially from my abhorence of the ill-judged War on Terror and the thousands of detainees who were and still are held without trial. In searching for some form of redemption for my narrator, I turned from the political to the personal and the spectre of cystic fibrosis plays a dominant role in the second half of the story. I wanted to know: can caring for those closest to you heal your own wounds?

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Product Details

• File Size: 503 KB
• Print Length: 286 pages
• Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
• Publisher: Lynskey Books (February 25, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004PLNNWC
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #933,871 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Thank You! April 3, 2013

By Daniel Smythes

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

I just stopped by to say thank you for the free book, which I downloaded ages ago. Sorry for the delay, but I had a ton of books to read, and now I have a chance to post reviews.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put it down.. January 6, 2013

By Amy M. Loposser

Format:Kindle Edition

This was one of the sweetest love stories I've ever read. I got lost in the story, and before I knew it, I was at the end. I'm not much of a reader, but I read this touching story in only one day. I am anxiously awaiting to see more from this author! Great book!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars unexpected, chilling and beautifully written April 9, 2012

By Joni L. Rodgers

Format:Kindle Edition

DANCING TO THE END OF LOVE has been on my TBR list since I read - and loved - Adrian White's novel An Accident Waiting to Happen. This one's kept me up until after 2 AM. I couldn't stop reading until the surprising and beautifully wrought end.

This story winds like a spiral staircase around a fatally flawed protagonist who plainly says about himself, "I'm not the right man for anyone in her right mind." With a chilling frankness, he lays out both his ugliest intentions and his heartbroken regrets. There's something very Camus about this solitary man as he roams the world, intersecting the lives of various women, manipulating people he encounters in a casual - almost sporting - way, until he's grabbed and brutalized by authorities who suspect him of terrorist activities. The ordeal is described with the same detached sorrow as his manipulative sexual encounters, but we begin to see a depth in him that gives us hope as the story winds back to where it began.

Adrian White is a masterful writer. Readers who are smart enough and open-minded enough to trust him for the duration of the telling will be rewarded with a story that's rich in imagery and moral complication and ultimately brings redemption in a most unexpected way.

More About the Author

Adrian White is an English writer who has lived in Ireland for over twenty years. His first novel, An Accident Waiting to Happen, was published in print by Penguin Books - as was his second novel, Where the Rain Gets In. Dancing to the End of Love is published exclusively as an ebook.