ISBN-13: 9780099433484 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 224 str.
Contains twelve stories which are variations on a theme of longing - the unassuagable human need for contact, for completion, for that most fugitive gift of all: reciprocal love. This work's characters' lives are thwarted, dashed, impassioned, each in their own way immolated by hope.