Match Frame

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A novel about winning and losing set in the Soviet Union. In the hostile environment of surveillance and isolation, an affair develops between unlikely partners foreigners in Moscow. A young Englishman with a life apart and an enigmatic, literature loving American girl are drawn into an intense relationship, where passion, games and threats evolve. As illusions are successively stripped, cold war' differences, harsh at the start, appear indistinct. The narrative explores modes of erotic attraction, splitting and alienation. Against persistent moulds of beginnings and ends, change seems a mirage. The atmosphere of observation and threat gets under the skin. Contrast between concise description, lively dialogue and passages of insistent reflection is impressive.' - Dr Phil Antonino Orlando, ex editor Turicum.