FLIGHTS OF LOVE consists of seven stories, all of them weaving around the idea o
f love - why people are drawn to it and why some run away. Schlink shows us in t
urn love as desire, love as confusion, love as a quick affair, love as a drastic
life-changing rebellion, love as a force of habit, love as self-betrayal. The c
umulative effect is a book which uses effortlessly beguiling language to examine
the universal human desire to find a lasting loving relationship, however thwar
ted that desire ultimately is.
