On their journey, the lovers encounter various other characters, miniatures who are given high definition by Skipp Sudduth and Mare Winningham.
There is also Hunding's Hut, the forest dwelling Wagner lovers encounter in Act I of "Die Walküre," where the brutish Hunding lives with Sieglinde, his oppressed and miserable wife.
It begins where it might normally end, when the two former lovers encounter each other on a train, after having erased their memories of each other and with no inkling of their previous relationship.
The second woman is a former lover, encountered decades after she "stormed out of his flat, infuriated" at his being "too nice!" Readers of previous Brookner novels will recognize this maddeningly "desperate assiduity".
The album hints at a tale of two sometime lovers whose encounters take place all over America, from South Carolina to California to Santa Fe to Milwaukee.
Be warned: the lovers' climactic encounter, in which Ms. Huppert is physically brutalized, is hard to watch (Holden).
Be warned: the lovers' climactic encounter in which Ms. Huppert is physically brutalized is hard to watch (Stephen Holden).
The second movement, an elegant waltz, evokes a ball where the lover again encounters the woman he can never possess, now in another man's arms.
It seemed, on the face of it, like an ordinary tale of long-lost lovers re-encountering each other, but the lyrics hint at something much darker.
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