The Last Darling

By Cloud Buchholz

Madly in love, they drift through the heartland of America confronted by bank robbers, maniacal doctors, a Wall Street tycoon, an absentminded poet, and a blind artist – each one troubled by a heart wrenching tale of love.

The Last Darling is a dark and diverging love story woven across three generations. As intimacy and perceptions twist into a vivid and wonderfully sad vision of love, we see that love is never really lost, only transformed. “He said it was like a large slab of stone. Stone could be carved and cut and broken into many tiny pieces, but each of those pieces was still stone.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cloud Buchholz
• Release date: Mar 19, 2011
• ISBN: 9781458052575

Cloud Buchholz

I’m an indie author writing on the west coast. I write novels, poetry, and short stories. I love to create dark and devious characters in all sorts of genres.My poetry is like if Dr Seuss and Hugh Hefner had a lovechild and then made it fight with Emily Dickinson in a kiddy pool of Jell-O.Right now we’re strangers but I hope one day we can meet in a story that's been completely made up.

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