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Priority: A Correspondence Published by Jean-Luc Foreur
Priority A Correspondence Published by JeanLuc Foreur Author:Iselin C. Hermann In a series of beautiful, increasingly erotic love letters, a young woman falls in love with a middle-aged painter she has never met. An international literary sensation, Priority is a lovely and charged exploration of love and adoration. A young woman, Delphine, is deeply moved by a painting in a gallery and writes a letter to the painter. She ... more »is sure he will not read it -- but he does, and he answers. Over the next eighteen months, Delphine's letters bare her soul layer by layer, making her ever more vulnerable to the middle-aged painter's teasing replies and long silences. As her love for the man grows -- a man she knows only through what he reveals in his letters -- her fascination with him blooms into near obsession. Delphine becomes concentrated, body and soul, in longing for a lover she has never seen -- and finally, it seems, a meeting may no longer be postponed. Lyrical and erotic, with an ending that recalls Cyrano de Bergerac, Priority is a moving, revealing journey through an admiration that develops into possession.« less