Asterik Author:Gerald Burke "I found this to be an underlying quality of her Nature. Nothing about her seemed permanent But morphed in transient forms of beauty." Jacob can never quite figure out if everything about Asterik is real or if nothing about her is real. What he knows for sure is that he is hopelessly in love with her. Can she ever return his love? He k... more »nows his competition is strong. Musicians, playboys, artists, and intellectuals all struggle for her attention. They are handsome, strong, sophisticated with women, and all are as bewitched with Asterik as Jacob is. Is she simply wicked, misguided or a lost soul? For Jacob, it doesn't really matter. Following in the tradition of Goethe, Ibsen, and Lermontov, ASTERIK is loosely based on Ivan Turgenev's Novella FIRST LOVE. Like the woman herself, ASTERIK is hard to get a hold of and even more difficult to let go.« less