From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes a literary, intimate study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.CHICAGO, SOMETIME―Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability―until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?
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Alone With You in the Ether
von Olivie Blake
From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes a literary, intimate study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.CHICAGO, SOMETIME―Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability―until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?
Aktuelle Rezensionen(9)
Rezension von Sandracant stop thinking about it
Rezension von Larisa<b> “You wouldn’t make love with him, you’d make art. Maybe that would be worth it, but still, art is tragedy. Art is loss. It’s the fleeting breath of a foregone moment, the intimacy of things undone, the summer season that passes. (…) It’s him lying next to you, legs tangled with yours, only to know he’ll be a specter in your thoughts by next month, next week, ten minutes from now (…) You’ve always understood, above everything, that what makes beauty is pain.” </b> Every now and then us readers have the pleasure of stumbling over a book and having it scratch just the right itch in your brain. This was not your typical lovestory. I don’t even tell you what it was exactly, apart from the fact that it was a piece of art
Rezension von reading.muslimahI loved the writing style. I wanted to highlight so many parts, and there were quotes that were just wow. The story was also very unique, but sometimes I was a bit confused (though to be honest, I often am when reading). I'm still very young, and reading this story was quite shocking for me — the vulgar language was sometimes too much, and some of the topics were pretty intense. The characters were also so complex and so real. Even though it might not really be part of the book, I found Olivie Blake’s acknowledgements incredibly touching. I’ll definitely be reading more of her work. 3.5/ 4 stars rounded up
Rezension von Holly Soohie4.5
Rezension von IdalisThe writing was amazing. They both pissed me off to a certain degree. But I was surprised that it was Aldo who pissed me off the most. Highly recommend!