The Love-Talkers
2003
Here is a wonderful read where erotica becomes poética, where the line between literature and reality blurs to create an unforgettable world of color and sensation.
—Graciela Limón, Author of In Search of Bernabé
Gail Wronsky's debut novel, The Love-Talkers, is an elegant and brilliantly conceived contemporary fable of desire and loss. This breathtaking and visionary tale posits an erotics of the imagination and a politics of self-inspection that are both compelling and heart-breaking.
—David St. John, Author of The Red Leaves of Night
Gail Wronsky's compact, lyrical novel illuminates a romantic surrealist dreamscape of the erotic imagination that is at once archetypal and entirely her own. It is a poet's novel, rich in luminous detail and well-ordered fragment-love-talk and the assassination of Trotsky, ceremony, and vivid imagination. Colette and the Mexico City earthquake. Love-and-death and a whole wonderfully weird ride between. She's an original.
—Sam Hamill, Author of The Erotic Spirit