City of Longing A Love Story Author:Victoria Thompson The betrayal of one?s friends is a bagatelle in the stakes of love, but the betrayal of oneself is lifelong regret, Tom Stoppard wrote in The Invention of Love?and it is regret that compels a man to search for the woman who will help him in this moving love story, steeped in longing, conflict and ... more » desire. He is mysterious and immensely wealthy?she is his apparent opposite, creative and idealistic. They are separated by oceans and continents and much more but, despite their seeming differences, they fall in love.
They arrange to meet in New York. Afterwards they will fly to London and from there to Paris, his suite at The Ritz, and to his château in the South of France. But there are many surprises ahead, especially for the woman whose journey leads her to Morocco and finally to the Swiss Alps where she finds the answers she has been looking for.
This unconventional love story incorporates a contemporary backdrop of many elements?conspicuous wealth and globalization; health and the politics of medicine; the world of art, myth and literature; the power of places and the ecstasy and agony of falling in love.« less