- Genre:fiction
- Sub-genre:Romance / Later in Life
- Language:English
- Pages:192
- eBook ISBN:9798350996340
- Paperback ISBN:9798350996333
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Overview
"Around Desire" follows the parallel lives of two people during the period of lockdown during a global pandemic—and how they deal with day-to-day life, and love, in an upturned society. As the world rapidly changes around them, how do they deal with the insanity? And will their paths lead them to find each other?
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"Around Desire" is an intimate portrait of two slightly acquainted characters, dealing with their daily lives, six months into the lockdown of a global pandemic. On the surface, it's a sometimes humorous, slightly satirical romance, but it's also a poetic snapshot of our early Twentieth Century's soon-to-be-mis-remembered collective global trauma. As a heightened documentation of the day-to-day life of two individuals, it's also a gently comic, dystopian, pseudo-memoir, as well as a somewhat lyrical modern ghost tale. And at its heart, ideally, it's a respectful and sober prayer for hope.
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