ASIN: B01KPERGNE
Publisher: Sojourner Books
Pages: 123
Five short tales from Paris to Honolulu that prove:Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.Eugene O'NeillFive people as different from each other as you and those around you in a crowd. Five lives that never touch each other. Because all are solitary souls.At a Paris Café. In early 70s Paris, a naive and eager young man chooses not to go with his buddies on a trip around the country on his summer vacation. He goes it alone in Paris. He falls in love for the first time and at first sight in his first encounter with a French couple at a café. But his illusions about love, about Paris are shaken.The Gypsy. A boy uprooted to Paris by his parents’ divorce learns some life lessons from an old gypsy he watches through an apartment window. He sees how different she is from him, but deep inside, he feels an uneasy kinship with her.The Sum of a Young Life. An urbane but blasé ...
