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La Ronde
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781969933561
Publisher: Pen2paper Publishing
Published: Oct 25 2026
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Five women. Five men. Ten lives joined by desire, ambition, and the longing to matter to someone.
In New York, Aurelia hopes a wealthy financier's attention might become affection. Her introduction of a young Russian student begins a chain of encounters that reaches from a restaurant kitchen to a California parish, a congressman's office, and a writer's modest apartment.
Each person wants something from the next. Generosity carries expectations. Admiration becomes possession. Love offers comfort while quietly making room for betrayal.
Set in 2018 and inspired by the circular structure of Arthur Schnitzler's Reigen, La Ronde explores the persistence of patriarchal power within relationships that call themselves modern and equal. Its women respond differently: accommodating, questioning, resisting, and sometimes sustaining the very arrangements that hurt them.
With warmth, sensuality, and dry humor, Andrea Fuchs Petzi follows the dance back to its beginning, asking whether recognizing a pattern is enough to change the next step.
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