Last Lovers Edition - Bookcassetter Author:William Wharton, multivoice This love story, by the author of "Birdy" and "Dad", is set in Paris in 1975. Jack, 49, and American, has walked out on his fast-lane corporate career and troubled marriage to return to his first love, painting. He lives a hand-to-mouth existence in Paris, struggling to express his long-suppressed feelings through his art. While painting in t... more »he park (and blocking the sidewalk), an elderly blind woman walks into him, knocking him off his feet and getting herself smeared with paint. Mirabelle, 71, is small, elegant, and radiant.
They fall slowly, carefully, and improbably in live, and into a tender physically passionate affair. While Mirabelle's tremendous sense of life inspires Jack to paint with new vision and freedom, he shares with her the mysteries of passion, and frees her from the traumatic event that blinded her in childhood.« less
SET IN PARIS IN 1975, JACK IS A 49 YEAR OLD ARTIST AND MIRABELLE A 71 YEAR OLD BLIND WOMAN. THEY SLOWLY FALL INTO A TENDER PHYSICALLY PASSIONATE AFFAIR.